Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions
The Aurignacian occurred in the middle of the Last Glacial Period, in which climate underwent major changes on millennial time scales, highlighted by the Greenland interstadial and stadial periods. Here we investigate how climate change influenced the Aurignacian human dispersal in Europe and search...
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ftubkoeln:oai:USBKOELN.ub.uni-koeln.de:57682 2023-05-15T16:29:31+02:00 Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions Shao, Yaping Limberg, Heiko Klein, Konstantin Wegener, Christian Schmidt, Isabell Weniger, Gerd-Christian Hense, Andreas Rostami, Masoud 2021 https://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/57682/ eng eng PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD Shao, Yaping, Limberg, Heiko, Klein, Konstantin, Wegener, Christian orcid:0000-0003-3052-2064 , Schmidt, Isabell, Weniger, Gerd-Christian, Hense, Andreas and Rostami, Masoud orcid:0000-0003-1730-5145 (2021). Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions. Quat. Sci. Rev., 263. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-457X ddc:no doc-type:article publishedVersion 2021 ftubkoeln 2022-11-09T07:33:34Z The Aurignacian occurred in the middle of the Last Glacial Period, in which climate underwent major changes on millennial time scales, highlighted by the Greenland interstadial and stadial periods. Here we investigate how climate change influenced the Aurignacian human dispersal in Europe and search for answers to several highly-debated questions in the Archaeology and Paleoanthropology. We use a global climate model to simulate the prototypical stadial and interstadial climate conditions and develop a human-existence potential (HEP) model to compute the probability of human existence by combining the climate data with archaeological site data. Using the HEP model, we reconstruct the patterns of human-existence probability and provide a pan-European overview of the Aurignacian human dispersal. The model results suggest that climate change significantly influences human dispersal, but there is evidence of human adaptation to climate. The Aurignacian dispersal is likely achieved in alternating modes of expansion and contraction. In comparison to interstadial times, human-existence probability in stadial times is largely reduced, but hot-spots exist in the climate shadows of large topographic features. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Cologne University: KUPS Greenland |
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The Aurignacian occurred in the middle of the Last Glacial Period, in which climate underwent major changes on millennial time scales, highlighted by the Greenland interstadial and stadial periods. Here we investigate how climate change influenced the Aurignacian human dispersal in Europe and search for answers to several highly-debated questions in the Archaeology and Paleoanthropology. We use a global climate model to simulate the prototypical stadial and interstadial climate conditions and develop a human-existence potential (HEP) model to compute the probability of human existence by combining the climate data with archaeological site data. Using the HEP model, we reconstruct the patterns of human-existence probability and provide a pan-European overview of the Aurignacian human dispersal. The model results suggest that climate change significantly influences human dispersal, but there is evidence of human adaptation to climate. The Aurignacian dispersal is likely achieved in alternating modes of expansion and contraction. In comparison to interstadial times, human-existence probability in stadial times is largely reduced, but hot-spots exist in the climate shadows of large topographic features. (c) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
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Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions |
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Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions |
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Shao, Yaping, Limberg, Heiko, Klein, Konstantin, Wegener, Christian orcid:0000-0003-3052-2064 , Schmidt, Isabell, Weniger, Gerd-Christian, Hense, Andreas and Rostami, Masoud orcid:0000-0003-1730-5145 (2021). Human-existence probability of the Aurignacian techno-complex under extreme climate conditions. Quat. Sci. Rev., 263. OXFORD: PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD. ISSN 1873-457X |
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