Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

Oshan Wedage; Noel Amano; Michelle C. Langley; Katerina Douka; James Blinkhorn; Alison Crowther; Siran Deraniyagala; Nikos Kourampas; Ian Simpson; Nimal Perera; Andrea Picin; Nicole Boivin; Michael Petraglia; Patrick Roberts

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1

Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Specialized rainforest hunting by Homo sapiens ~45,000 years ago

Oshan Wedage,
Noel Amano,
Michelle C. Langley,
Katerina Douka,
James Blinkhorn,
Alison Crowther,
Siran Deraniyagala,
Nikos Kourampas,
Ian Simpson,
Nimal Perera,
Andrea Picin,
Nicole Boivin,
Michael Petraglia,
Patrick Roberts

Affiliations

Oshan Wedage: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Noel Amano: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Michelle C. Langley: Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution, Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan
Katerina Douka: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
James Blinkhorn: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Alison Crowther: Department of Archaeology, University of Queensland
Siran Deraniyagala: Department of Archaeology, Government of Sri Lanka
Nikos Kourampas: Biological & Environmental Science, University of Stirling
Ian Simpson: Biological & Environmental Science, University of Stirling
Nimal Perera: Department of Archaeology, Government of Sri Lanka
Andrea Picin: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Nicole Boivin: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Michael Petraglia: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
Patrick Roberts: Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08623-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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As modern humans migrated out of Africa, they encountered novel habitats. Here, Wedage et al. study the archaeological site of Fa-Hien Lena in Sri Lanka and show that the earliest human residents of the island practiced specialized hunting of small mammals, demonstrating ecological plasticity.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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