New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years

doi:10.1007/s11430-022-1225-7

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	New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years
	Ge, Junyi 1,2; Zhang, Xiaoling 1,2; Wang, Shejiang 1,2; Li, Linhui 3; He, Wei 3; Jin, Yingshuai 1,2; Zhang, Peiqi 1; Xu, Bing 2,4; Deng, Chenglong 2,5; Olsen, John W.1,6; Guo, Zhengtang 2,4; Gao, Xing1,2
	2023-11-21
发表期刊	SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES
ISSN	1674-7313
页码	21
通讯作者	Ge, Junyi(gejunyi@ivpp.ac.cn) ; Zhang, Xiaoling(zhangxiaoling@ivpp.ac.cn)
摘要	The timing and mechanisms of the human occupation of the demanding high-altitude Tibetan Plateau environment are of great interest. Here, we report on our reinvestigations and dating of the Nwya Devu site, located nearly 4600 meters above sea level on the central Tibetan Plateau. A new microblade techno-complex was identified on a lower lake shore at this site, distinct from the previously reported blade tool assemblage. These two lithic assemblages were dated to 45.6 +/- 2.6 and 10.3 +/- 0.5 ka using optically stimulated luminescence and accelerator mass spectrometry C-14 methods. They represent, respectively, the earliest known Paleolithic and microlithic sites on the interior Tibetan Plateau, indicating multiple occupation episodes of hunter-gatherers during the past 45 ka. Our studies reveal that relatively stable depositional conditions and a paleoenvironment characterized by a comparatively warm climate facilitated these multiple occupations at Nwya Devu. The contemporaneous occurrence of the Upper Paleolithic blade technology on the Tibetan Plateau and most of Eurasia between 50 and 40 ka indicates rapid, large-scale dispersals of humans that profoundly affected human demography on a large scale. Combining new archaeological evidence and previously reported genetic data, we conclude that the Tibetan Plateau provided a relatively stable habitat for Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers, which may have contributed to the complex and multiple-origin gene pool of present-day Tibetans.
关键词	Tibet Paleolithic Nwya Devu High-altitude adaptation Microblade industry Early Upper Paleolithic OSL dating AMS C-14 dating
DOI	10.1007/s11430-022-1225-7
关键词[WOS]	PERMANENT HUMAN OCCUPATION ; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM ; GENETIC HISTORY ; DENISOVA CAVE ; LUMINESCENCE ; QUARTZ ; LAKE ; ADAPTATION ; AGE ; SEDIMENTS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Hao LONG, Ruiping TANG ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41888101] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41977380] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[42072033] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDA2004010102] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research[2019QZKK0601] ; National Social Science Foundation of China[21@WTK001] ; Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative Award[2018VCA0016] ; Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona
项目资助者	Hao LONG, Ruiping TANG ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research ; National Social Science Foundation of China ; Chinese Academy of Sciences President's International Fellowship Initiative Award ; Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:001109038000001
出版者	SCIENCE PRESS
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/23064
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Ge, Junyi; Zhang, Xiaoling
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 3.Tibetan Cultural Rel Conservat Inst, Lhasa 850000, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Cenozo Geol & Environm, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 5.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, State Key Lab Lithospher Evolut, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 6.Univ Arizona, Sch Anthropol, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Ge, Junyi,Zhang, Xiaoling,Wang, Shejiang,et al. New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years[J]. SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,2023:21.
APA	Ge, Junyi.,Zhang, Xiaoling.,Wang, Shejiang.,Li, Linhui.,He, Wei.,...&Gao, Xing.(2023).New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years.SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES,21.
MLA	Ge, Junyi,et al."New dating indicates intermittent human occupation of the Nwya Devu Paleolithic site on the high-altitude central Tibetan Plateau during the past 45,000 years".SCIENCE CHINA-EARTH SCIENCES (2023):21.