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Assessing earliest human settlement of Eurasia: Late Pliocene dispersions from Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Alan Turner
Alan Turner*
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School of Biological and Earth Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool L3 3AF, England [email protected]
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Abstract

Continued discussion of the timing and intensity of earliest human occupation of Europe takes little account of the wider patterning of mammalian dispersions between Africa and Eurasia as guide. Viewed as a palaeontological event, the maximum period of such movement appears to be of latest Pliocene age, while conditions during the Early Pleistocene seem to have been particularly unsuited to dispersions through the Levant.

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Early human dispersionLevantine corridorLate Pliocene
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Antiquity , Volume 73 , Issue 281 , September 1999 , pp. 563 - 570
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1999

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