Nature Communications (Feb 2020)
Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago
- Chris Clarkson,
- Clair Harris,
- Bo Li,
- Christina M. Neudorf,
- Richard G. Roberts,
- Christine Lane,
- Kasih Norman,
- Jagannath Pal,
- Sacha Jones,
- Ceri Shipton,
- Jinu Koshy,
- M. C. Gupta,
- D. P. Mishra,
- A. K. Dubey,
- Nicole Boivin,
- Michael Petraglia
Affiliations
- Chris Clarkson
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland
- Clair Harris
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland
- Bo Li
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
- Christina M. Neudorf
- Desert Research Institute
- Richard G. Roberts
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
- Christine Lane
- Department of Geography, University of Cambridge
- Kasih Norman
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, University of Wollongong
- Jagannath Pal
- Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad
- Sacha Jones
- McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge
- Ceri Shipton
- Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Australian National University, College of Asia and the Pacific
- Jinu Koshy
- Department of Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Madras
- M. C. Gupta
- Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad
- D. P. Mishra
- Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, University of Allahabad
- A. K. Dubey
- Department of Ancient Indian History, Culture and Archaeology, Banaras Hindu University
- Nicole Boivin
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland
- Michael Petraglia
- School of Social Science, University of Queensland
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14668-4
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 11,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
When modern humans colonized India is debated. Here, Clarkson and colleagues report an archaeological site in India that has been occupied for approximately 80,000 years and contains a stone tool assemblage attributed to Homo sapiens that matches artefacts from Africa, Arabia, and Australia.
