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from Pleistocene Evolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 February 2020
After millennia of cooling, the Last Glacial Maximum reached an extreme. Every species adjusted, even in the tropics. Humans responded with new social organization: communities pooled resources to face issues of leadership, forming confederations that pooled resources. After the coldest moment – 21,500 years ago – migrants moved to newly fertile lands as temperature rose almost ceaselessly for millennia. Intensive food gathering was accompanied by productive institutions: architecture for permanent homes, textiles, ceramics, and workshops for visual representation. Eurasiatic-speakers moved westward across Siberia; others moved both north and south in eastern Asia and between Africa and western Asia. New details on American settlement now reveal two groups of Asian voyagers who followed the “kelp highway” just offshore. The main group formed settlements along the Pacific littoral, expanding inland from points as far as southern Chile by 19,000 years ago. By the end of the Pleistocene, the achievements of early humanity included occupying most of Earth, supplementing foraging with production, exquisite visual representations, and dependable adaptability.
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