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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Investigating the palaeoenvironmental context of Late Pleistocene human dispersals into Southeast Asia: a review of stable isotope applications |
Author: | McAllister, M.S. Morley, M.W. Tyler, J.J. McInerney, F.A. Blyth, A.J. |
Citation: | Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 2022; 14(5):1-27 |
Publisher: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
ISSN: | 1866-9557 1866-9565 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Meghan S. McAllister, Mike W. Morley, Jonathan J. Tyler, Francesca A. McInerney, Alison J. Blyth |
Abstract: | We review palaeoenvironmental applications of stable isotope analysis to Late Pleistocene archaeological sites across Southeast Asia (SEA), a region critical to understanding the evolution of Homo sapiens and other co-existing Late Pleistocene (124–11.7 ka) hominins. Stable isotope techniques applied to archaeological deposits offer the potential to develop robust palaeoenvironmental reconstructions, to contextualise the occupational and non-occupational history of a site. By evaluating the published research in this field, we show that sediments, guano, tooth enamel, speleothem and biomolecular material such as leaf waxes have great potential to provide site-specific palaeoenvironmental records and local and catchment-scale landscape context to hominin dispersal in the region. However, stable isotope techniques used in these contexts are in their infancy in SEA, and the diagenetic controls associated with hot and humid environments that typify the region are not yet fully understood. Additionally, availability of sources of stable isotopes varies between sites. Nonetheless, even the limited research currently available shows that stable isotope analyses can aid in developing a better understanding of the role of the environment on the nature and timing of dispersals of our species eastwards into SEA and beyond. |
Keywords: | Stable isotopes Southeast Asia Late Pleistocene Palaeoenvironments Hominins |
Rights: | © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http:// creat iveco mmons. org/ licen ses/ by/4. 0/. |
DOI: | 10.1007/s12520-022-01540-3 |
Grant ID: | http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/FT180100309 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01540-3 |
Appears in Collections: | Geology & Geophysics publications |
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