Sentences with phrase «pleistocene east»

It is clear that they share no particular affinity with either Pleistocene East Asians, such as Liujiang or Upper Cave 101, or recent East Asians.

Plio - Pleistocene East African climate pulses as evinced by the paleo - lake records seem, therefore, fundamental to hominin speciation, encephalisation and migration.

Curnoe counters, however, that the key comparison is with Pleistocene East Asian skulls and recent hunter - gatherer and agricultural populations.

Curnoe nicknamed the bones the Red Deer Cave people; he and his colleagues compared them with modern and contemporary human remains from Asia, Australia, Europe, and Africa, as well as with Pleistocene East Asian hunter - gatherer skulls.

Not exact matches

The region of the Middle East represents a major corridor for hominin migrations during the Pleistocene and has been occupied at different times by both modern humans and Neandertals.

Detailed morphological comparisons (google e.g. marc verhaegen human evolution) suggest IMO that South - African australopiths are more related to Homo - Pan than to Gorilla, and East - African australopiths more to Gorilla than to Homo - Pan, and that the East - Africans & the South - Africans often evolved in parallel (allopatrically A.africanus - > robustus / / A.afarensis - > boisei), from more gracile to more robust, possibly in response to the same climatic changes (e.g. Pleistocene cooling & drying).

Domack, E.W., Jull, A.J.T., Anderson, J.B., Linick, T.W., and Williams, C.R., 1989, Application of Tandem Accelerator Mass - Spectrometer dating to late Pleistocene - Holocene Sediments of the East Antarctic continental shelf: Quaternary Research, v. 31, p. 277 - 287.

Late Pleistocene Interactions of East and West Antarctic Ice Flow Regimes: Evidence from the McMurdo Ice Shelf.

Area 6A has a southern boundary through an area of limited exposure, its western boundary is Lake Turkana, and its northern boundary is an arbitrary line separating it from Area 2 in the west and Area 4 in the east along which there is little exposure of Pliocene or Pleistocene strata.

Alternatively, East Asia may have been colonised during multiple waves during the Pleistocene, with the Longlin - Maludong morphology possibly reflecting deep population substructure in Africa prior to modern humans dispersing into Eurasia.

Citation: Curnoe D, Xueping J, Herries AIR, Kanning B, Taçon PSC, Zhende B, et al. (2012) Human Remains from the Pleistocene - Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians.

During the early Pleistocene epoch, ice cover in East Greenland was dynamic; in contrast, East Greenland was mostly ice - covered during the mid-to-late Pleistocene.

Hence, though the Pulse Climate Variability hypothesis is an interesting starting point for discussing early human evolution it may to simplistic to capture the whole range of evolutionary forcing occurring in East Africa in the Plio - Pleistocene.

Hence over the Plio - Pleistocene, East African climate is best characterised as a long - term trend towards increasing aridity punctuated by periods of precession - forced high rainfall leading to the periodic appearance of deep freshwater lakes.

«Evidence for an advanced Plio - Pleistocene hominid from East Rudolf, Kenya.»

This low - energy setting, situated near the modern - day glacial below the active volcano of Tronador located about 50 km east of Monte Verde, is topographically and ecologically reminiscent of the sandur plain at the site that was occupied in late Pleistocene times.

Limited Pleistocene deposits are particularly well developed at Potato Harbor and on the island's east end.

To the east and north of the Maya Mountains are the Pleistocene alluvium deposits of the coastal areas.

«Oxygen and Carbon Isotope Record of East Pacific Core V19 - 30: Implications for the Formation of Deep Water in the Late Pleistocene North Atlantic.»

Repeated Pleistocene glaciation of the East Siberian Continental Margin.