Using GIS and ecological variables to identify high potential areas for paleoanthropological survey: an example from northern Armenia
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Charles P. Egeland, Associate Professor (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: The timing and nature of the initial hominid dispersals from Africa during the Plio-Pleistocene (here 2.0-1.5 million years ago [MYR]) is an issue of great interest for paleoanthropology. However, the biological, technological, and ecological context of these dispersals remains cloudy due largely to a paucity of Eurasian paleoanthropological sites dating to this time period. Indeed, there are only a handful of well-accepted Plio-Pleistocene sites from Eurasia: Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia at 1.77-1.81 MYR (de Lumley et al. 2002), the Nihewan and Yuanmou basins of China at 1.66-1.70 MYR (Zhu et al. 2008), and the Indonesian island of Java at least 1.66 MYR (Sangiran) but perhaps as early as 1.81 MYR (Mojokerto) (Larick et al. 2001; Swisher et al. 1994). Although the Levant, given its geographic location, is the most logical extra- African source of dispersing hominid populations, the earliest well-accepted occupations there ('Ubeidiya in Israel) date to somewhat later in time at 1.4 MYR (Belmaker et al. 2002).
Using GIS and ecological variables to identify high potential areas for paleoanthropological survey: an example from northern Armenia
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Journal of Ecological Anthropology 14, 89-98
- Language: English
- Date: 2009
- Keywords
- GIS, Armenia, Plio-Pleistocene, paleoanthropology