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South Asia is one of the most interesting regions for human evolution. A region where all simple models fall apart!
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Sheela Athreya
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Joao Teixiera
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Sources:
Narmada: Athreya, Sheela. “South Asia as a Geographic Crossroad: Patterns and Predictions of Hominin Morphology in Pleistocene India.” Asian Paleoanthropology, 2010, pp. 129–141., https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9094-2_10.
Patnaik, Rajeev, et al. “New Geochronological, Paleoclimatological, and Archaeological Data from the Narmada Valley Hominin Locality, Central India.” Journal of Human Evolution, vol. 56, no. 2, 2009, pp. 114–133., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.08.023.
Great Overview: Chauhan, Parth Randhir. “South Asia: Paleolithic.” Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, 2020, pp. 9987–10006., https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30018-0_662.
Early Middle Paleolithic: Akhilesh, Kumar, et al. “Early Middle Palaeolithic Culture in India around 385–172 Ka Reframes out of Africa Models.” Nature, vol. 554, no. 7690, 2018, pp. 97–101., https://doi.org/10.1038/nature25444.
Anil, Devara, et al. “An Early Presence of Modern Human or Convergent Evolution? A 247 Ka Middle Palaeolithic Assemblage from Andhra Pradesh, India.” Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, vol. 45, 2022, p. 103565., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103565.
Late Achuelean: Haslam, Michael, et al. “Late Acheulean Hominins at the Marine Isotope Stage 6/5E Transition in North-Central India.” Quaternary Research, vol. 75, no. 3, 2011, pp. 670–682., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yqres.2011.02.001.
Extinct Hominin 1: Teixeira, João C., and Alan Cooper. “Using Hominin Introgression to Trace Modern Human Dispersals.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 116, no. 31, 2019, pp. 15327–15332., https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904824116.
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