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Glacial cycles and Palaeolithic adaptive variability on China's Western Loess Plateau

  • Christopher Morgan (a1), Loukas Barton (a2), Robert Bettinger (a3), Fahu Chen (a4) and Zhang Dongju (a4)...
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Intensive research on China's Western Loess Plateau has located 63 Palaeolithic deposits, which together allow the authors to present a general model of hominin occupation from 80 000 to 18 000 years ago. Tools, subsistence and settlement correlate nicely with the climate: the warm wet MIS3 seeing expansion and more organised acquisition of quartz, and the Late Glacial Maximum that followed, a reduction in human presence but possibly an increase in ingenuity.

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