The southern route "out of Africa": Evidence for an early expansion of modern humans into Arabia

Science

Volumn 331, Issue 6016, 2011, Pages 453-456

  Armitage, Simon J ^a   Jasim, Sabah A ^b   Marks, Anthony E ^c   Parker, Adrian G ^d   Usik, Vitaly I ^e   Uerpmann, Hans Peter ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Culture and Information   (United Arab Emirates)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Ukraine)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RAIN;

DATA INTERPRETATION; DISPERSAL; EUSTACY; LAST INTERGLACIAL; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MODERNIZATION; STONE AGE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; INDIAN OCEAN; POPULATION MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL; STONE AGE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

AFRICA; ARABIA; ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; TIME; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH ASIA; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 79251568290     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1199113     Document Type: Article

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35. Funding information: We thank the government of Sharjah for funding the excavations and elements of the lab work at Tübingen. Funding was also provided by the Role of Culture in Early Expansions of Humans project (Heidelberg Academy of Sciences), Humboldt Foundation, Oxford Brookes University, and the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). Author responsibilities: S.J.A., OSL dating; S.A.J., excavation codirector; A.E.M. and V.I.U., lithic analysis; A.G.P., paleoenvironments; H.-P.U., codirector of excavations, director of laboratory analyses at Tübingen University. Special thanks are due to the third codirector, M. Uerpmann, for handling the logistics of the project.