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Mid-Pleistocene aridity and landscape shifts promoted Palearctic hominin dispersals Open

Jinbo Zan, Julien Louys, Robin Dennell, Michael D. Petraglia, Wenxiao Ning , et al. · 2024

Population expansions and contractions out of and into Africa since the early Pleistocene have influenced the course of human evolution. While local- and regional-scale investigations have provided insights into the drivers of Eurasian hom…

How and why is Homo sapiens so successful? Open

Robin Dennell, Linda Hurcombe · 2024

By 30,000 years ago, Homo sapiens was the only type of hominin and had colonised most environments in the Old World. We argue that this success resulted from its ability to increase its population because more H. sapiens women than their c…

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Jinbo Zan, Julien Louys, Robin Dennell, Michael D. Petraglia, Wenxiao Ning , et al. · 2023

Carbon isotope records of soil organic matter and total carbonate of eolian sediments in Tajikistan and Tarim Basin.

300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China Open

Xing Gao, Jianhui Liu, Qijun Ruan, Junyi Ge, Yong‐Jiang Huang , et al. · 2021

Early Palaeolithic wooden implements are exceptionally rare. The best known are the spears and throwing sticks from Schöningen, Germany dated to ca. 300–330 thousand years (kyr) ago 1,2 and the 171-kyr old digging sticks from Poggetti Vecc…

New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau Open

Tingping Ouyang, Shasha Peng, Houyun Zhou, Ya‐Mei Hou, Shuqing Fu , et al. · 2019

Many hominin sites have been found since 1920 in the Chinese Loess Plateau and its adjacent areas, such as Nihewan, Shuidonggou, Dingcun, Dali, Kehe, Xihoudu, east Qinling Mts. and Lantian. Recently two very important investigations of hom…

Dating of hominin discoveries at Denisova Open

Robin Dennell · 2019

Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter? Open

Eleanor M. L. Scerri, Mark Thomas, Andrea Manica, Philipp Gunz, Jay T. Stock , et al. · 2018

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene Open

Robin Dennell · 2017

Narratives of “Out of Africa 2”—the expansion of Homo sapiens across Asia—emphasize the pattern of human dispersal but not the underlying processes. In recent years, the main debates have been over the timing and frequency of dispersal. He…

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