150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

Henry Lamb; C. Richard Bates; Charlotte  Bryant; Sarah Davies; Dei Huws; Michael Marshall; Helen Roberts; Harry Toland

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19601-w

150,000-year palaeoclimate record from northern Ethiopia supports early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa

Henry Lamb, C. Richard Bates, Charlotte Bryant, Sarah Davies, Dei Huws, Michael Marshall, Helen Roberts, Harry Toland

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Climatic change is widely acknowledged to have played a role in the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa, but the timing is contentious. Genetic evidence links dispersal to climatic change ~60,000 years ago, despite increasing evidence for earlier modern human presence in Asia. We report a deep seismic and near-continuous core record of the last 150,000 years from Lake Tana, Ethiopia, close to early modern human fossil sites and to postulated dispersal routes. The record shows varied climate towards the end of the penultimate glacial, followed by an abrupt change to relatively stable moist climate during the last interglacial. These conditions could have favoured selection for behavioural versatility, population growth and range expansion, supporting models of early, multiple dispersals of modern humans from Africa.

Original language	English
Article number	1077
Number of pages	7
Journal	Scientific Reports
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19601-w
Publication status	Published - 18 Jan 2018

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A 500,000 year environmental record: A 500000 year environmental record from Chew Bahir, south Ethiopia testing hypotheses of climate driven human evolution innovation and dispersal
Bates, C. R. (PI) & Raub, T. D. (CoI)
NERC
1/11/13 → 31/01/16
Project: Standard
Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tan: Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile
Bates, C. R. (PI) & Prave, T. (CoI)
NERC
1/10/06 → 30/09/08
Project: Standard

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