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In palaeoanthropology, the late Pleistocene contains the Upper Palaeolithic stage of human development, including the early human migrations of modern humans outside of Africa, and the extinction of all archaic human species.
21 wrz 2016 · The findings document that orbital-scale global climate swings played a key role in shaping Late Pleistocene global population distributions, whereas millennial-scale abrupt climate changes ...
14 sty 2021 · During the Late Pleistocene, Europe was characterized by rapidly oscillating climatic shifts of dramatic magnitude 1, 2. Such changes would have posed significant challenges for all hominins,...
29 kwi 2024 · Here the authors provide new radiocarbon, U-series, and OSL dates for Homo sapiens fossils from Tongtianyan cave, southern China, placing them at 33-23 thousand years ago and indicating...
1 gru 2022 · The Middle and Late Pleistocene is arguably the most interesting period in human evolution. This broad period witnessed the evolution of our own lineage, as well as that of our sister taxon, the Neanderthals, and related Denisovans.
14 mar 2008 · Modern human dispersal from Africa across Eurasia began by about 50 ka (4, 5) and culminated with colonization of the Americas. Evidence from nuclear gene markers, mitochondrial (mt)DNA, and Y chromosomes indicates that all Native Americans came from Asia (6, 7).
12 lip 2019 · This founder population made its way to eastern Beringia and after additional population splits traveled south of the continental ice sheets covering Canada sometime between ~17.5 and ~14.6 ka ago. These genetic results agree with the emerging late Pleistocene archaeological record.