Using GIS and Ecological Variables to Identify High Potential Areas for Paleoanthropological Survey

An Example from Northern Armenia

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7879622
AutoresCharles P Egeland (0000-0002-2731-8276, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, autor de correspondencia), Charles Egeland, Chris Nicholson (0000-0003-3212-2662, University of Wyoming), Christopher Nicholson (0000-0002-5051-4654), Boris Gasparian (University of North Carolina at Greensboro)
Año2010
Volumen14
Número1
Páginas89-98
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Ecological Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1528-6509 • E-ISSN: 2162-4593
EditorialUniversity of South Florida Libraries (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5038/2162-4593.14.1.8
OpenAlexW2094549013
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas8

The timing and nature of the initial hominid dispersals from Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene (here 2.0-1.5 million years ago [MYR]) is an issue of great interest for paleoanthropology. However, the biological, technological, and ecological context of these dispersals remains cloudy due largely to a paucity of Eurasian paleoanthropological sites dating to this time period. Indeed, there are only a handful of well-accepted Plio-Pleistocene sites from Eurasia: Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia at 1.77-1.81 MYR (de Lumley et al. 2002), the Nihewan and Yuanmou basins of China at 1.66-1.70 MYR (Zhu et al. 2008), and the Indonesian island of Java at least 1.66 MYR (Sangiran) but perhaps as early as 1.81 MYR (Mojokerto) (Larick et al. 2001; Swisher et al. 1994). Although the Levant, given its geographic location, is the most logical extra- African source of dispersing hominid populations, the earliest well-accepted occupations there ('Ubeidiya in Israel) date to somewhat later in time at 1.4 MYR (Belmaker et al. 2002)

Biology · Geography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology