Publication details
On modern human penetration to Northern Eurasia: The multiple advances hypothesis.
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| Year of publication | 2007 |
| Type | Chapter of a book |
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| Description | In the current discussions, modern human penetration to Northern Eurasian zone was mostly considered as a single event, where two anatomically different human populations faced each other. However, in the light of interterregional comparative analyses of technologies and styles, the colonization appears rather as a long-term process of repeated modern human advances, leaving behind a variety of archaeological signatures. In this paper, we review lithic industries of the Levallois-leptolithic (Bohunician), the Aurignacian, and the Gravettian of Europe as subsequent examples of the technological influence from the East Mediterranean or Near Eastern regions. In contrast to lithic technologies, the complex evidence from Eurasian settlements, burials, symbolic objects and the variety of artifacts made of organic materials do not show these southern nor southeastern analogies and should be considered as the results of modern human adaptation after settling the Eurasian steppic zone. |