Continuity and change in the lithic industries of the Jurreru Valley, India, before and after the Toba eruption

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作者
Clarkson, Chris [1 ]
Jones, Sacha [2 ]
Harris, Clair [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
[2] Univ Cambridge, McDonald Inst Archaeol Res, Cambridge CB2ER, England
基金
澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS; SUPERVOLCANIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC WINTER; ASIA; SETTLEMENT; SUBCONTINENT; OCCUPATION; AFRICA; SINGLE; SOUTH;
D O I
10.1016/j.quaint.2011.11.007
中图分类号
P9 [自然地理学];
学科分类号
0705 ; 070501 ;
摘要
Lithic assemblage variability is synthesized and discussed for seven open sites and one rockshelter from the Jurreru Valley in the Kurnool district of southern India. The sites span the last c.77,000 years and provide an invaluable record of cultural change spanning the Toba Super-eruption, 74 thousand years ago (ka), as well as the transition to the microlithic. Lithic evidence documents long-term continuities before and after the eruption that indicates the Toba eruption had a minimal impact on the underlying system of flake production in the valley. The analysis also indicates that many cores from above and below the Toba ash are technologically extremely similar to those from early modern human sites in sub-Saharan Africa, southeast Asia and Australia, suggesting modern humans may have entered India before the Toba eruption as part of an early eastward dispersal from Africa. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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页码:165 / 179
页数:15
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