Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition

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	Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition
	Guo, Xiaoqi 1; Sun, Xuefeng 1; Lu, Huayu 1; Wang, Shejiang 2; Lu, Chengqiu 3
	2023-10-01
发表期刊	LAND
卷号	12 期号:10 页码:17
通讯作者	Sun, Xuefeng([email protected]) ; Wang, Shejiang([email protected])
摘要	The Qinling Mountain Range (QMR), where more than 500 hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites have been preserved, was a major center of hominin evolution and settlement and an important link for the hominin migration and dispersal between the north and the south during the Pleistocene in China. The rich culture remains and the related data make it possible and meaningful to study the characteristics and mechanisms of hominin occupation and dispersal in the region. This paper has summarized and analyzed the geographical distributions and chronologies of 55 dated hominin fossils and Paleolithic sites in the QMR to date. By combining them with the evidence from the loess-paleosol sequence, a relatively continuous and chronological sequence of hominin occupation and dispersal has been established, in which we have identified five stages, viz. similar to before 1.2 Ma, the sporadic occurrence stage of early hominin occupation; similar to 1.2-0.7 Ma, the initial expansion stage; similar to 0.7-0.3 Ma, the stability and maintenance stage; similar to 0.3-0.05 Ma, the large-scale expansion stage; similar to 0.05-0.01 Ma, the sharp decline stage of the record of hominin occupation. We conclude that the environmental and ecosystem changes associated with the MPT drove early hominins to disperse southwards across the QMR. In addition, the evidence suggests that the hominin occupation and dispersal here was broadly continuous during both glacial and interglacial scales from early to late Pleistocene, and that the southern QMR provided a glacial refuge.
关键词	Qinling Mountain Range mid-Pleistocene transition hominin occupation and dispersal chronological framework dispersal corridors
DOI	10.3390/land12101882
关键词[WOS]	HANJIANG RIVER VALLEY ; DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR REGION ; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; HUBEI PROVINCE ; LUONAN BASIN ; PALEOLITHIC SITES ; SHAANXI PROVINCE ; STONE TECHNOLOGY ; HUANGLONG CAVE ; HANZHONG BASIN
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	We thank Xu Xinghua, Lu Yiming and Lu Ying for their help in collecting and sorting Paleolithic site data. We are very grateful to Peng Zhang and Micheal Meadows for their modification suggestions. And we are sincerely grateful to the editors and referees
项目资助者	We thank Xu Xinghua, Lu Yiming and Lu Ying for their help in collecting and sorting Paleolithic site data. We are very grateful to Peng Zhang and Micheal Meadows for their modification suggestions. And we are sincerely grateful to the editors and referees
WOS研究方向	Environmental Sciences & Ecology
WOS类目	Environmental Studies
WOS记录号	WOS:001097890400001
出版者	MDPI
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23035
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Sun, Xuefeng; Wang, Shejiang
作者单位	1.Nanjing Univ, Sch Geog & Ocean Sci, Nanjing 210023, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Hubei Prov Inst Cultural Rel & Archaeol, Wuhan 430077, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Guo, Xiaoqi,Sun, Xuefeng,Lu, Huayu,et al. Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition[J]. LAND,2023,12(10):17.
APA	Guo, Xiaoqi,Sun, Xuefeng,Lu, Huayu,Wang, Shejiang,&Lu, Chengqiu.(2023).Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition.LAND,12(10),17.
MLA	Guo, Xiaoqi,et al."Early Hominin Dispersal across the Qinling Mountains, China, during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition".LAND 12.10(2023):17.