Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene

被引：180

作者：

Meyer, M. C. ^{[1
]}

Aldenderfer, M. S. ^{[2
]}

Wang, Z. ^{[1
]}

Hoffmann, D. L. ^{[3
]}

Dahl, J. A. ^{[4
]}

Degering, D. ^{[5
]}

Haas, W. R. ^{[6
]}

Schluetz, F. ^{[7
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Innsbruck, Inst Geol, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

[2] Univ Calif, Sch Social Sci Humanities & Arts, Merced, CA 95343 USA

[3] Max Planck Inst Evolutionary Anthropol, Dept Human Evolut, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

[4] GNS Sci, Natl Isotope Ctr, Lower Hutt 5040, New Zealand

[5] ADD Ideas Albrecht & Detlev Degering, Zum Erzengel Michael 19, D-01723 Mohorn, Germany

[6] Univ Wyoming, Dept Anthropol, Laramie, WY 82071 USA

[7] Lower Saxony Inst Hist Coastal Res, D-26382 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

来源：

SCIENCE | 2017年 / 355卷 / 6320期

基金：

奥地利科学基金会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

GLACIER FLUCTUATIONS; LUMINESCENCE; ADAPTATION; SETTLEMENT;

D O I：

10.1126/science.aag0357

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Current models of the peopling of the higher-elevation zones of the Tibetan Plateau postulate that permanent occupation could only have been facilitated by an agricultural lifeway at similar to 3.6 thousand calibrated carbon-14 years before present. Here we report a reanalysis of the chronology of the Chusang site, located on the central Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of similar to 4270 meters above sea level. The minimum age of the site is fixed at similar to 7.4 thousand years (thorium-230/uranium dating), with a maximum age between similar to 8.20 and 12.67 thousand calibrated carbon-14 years before present (carbon-14 assays). Travel cost modeling and archaeological data suggest that the site was part of an annual, permanent, preagricultural occupation of the central plateau. These findings challenge current models of the occupation of the Tibetan Plateau.

引用

页码：64 / 67

页数：4

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