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Faulkner P, Miller JM, Quintana Morales EM, Crowther A, Shipton C, Ndiema E, Boivin N, Petraglia MD. 67,000 years of coastal engagement at Panga ya Saidi, eastern Africa. PLoS One 2021; 16:e0256761. [PMID: 34437643 PMCID: PMC8389378 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256761] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/12/2021] [Accepted: 08/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The antiquity and nature of coastal resource procurement is central to understanding human evolution and adaptations to complex environments. It has become increasingly apparent in global archaeological studies that the timing, characteristics, and trajectories of coastal resource use are highly variable. Within Africa, discussions of these issues have largely been based on the archaeological record from the south and northeast of the continent, with little evidence from eastern coastal areas leaving significant spatial and temporal gaps in our knowledge. Here, we present data from Panga ya Saidi, a limestone cave complex located 15 km from the modern Kenyan coast, which represents the first long-term sequence of coastal engagement from eastern Africa. Rather than attempting to distinguish between coastal resource use and coastal adaptations, we focus on coastal engagement as a means of characterising human relationships with marine environments and resources from this inland location. We use aquatic mollusc data spanning the past 67,000 years to document shifts in the acquisition, transportation, and discard of these materials, to better understand long-term trends in coastal engagement. Our results show pulses of coastal engagement beginning with low-intensity symbolism, and culminating in the consistent low-level transport of marine and freshwater food resources, emphasising a diverse relationship through time. Panga ya Saidi has the oldest stratified evidence of marine engagement in eastern Africa, and is the only site in Africa which documents coastal resources from the Late Pleistocene through the Holocene, highlighting the potential archaeological importance of peri-coastal sites to debates about marine resource relationships.
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- Patrick Faulkner
- Department of Archaeology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, United States of America
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
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- Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, United Kingdom
- Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
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- Department of Earth Sciences, Archaeology Section, National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
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- Department of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany
- School of Social Science, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
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Hölzchen E, Hertler C, Mateos A, Rodríguez J, Berndt JO, Timm IJ. Discovering the opposite shore: How did hominins cross sea straits? PLoS One 2021; 16:e0252885. [PMID: 34191820 PMCID: PMC8244915 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252885] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2021] [Accepted: 05/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Understanding hominin expansions requires the comprehension of movement processes at different scales. In many models of hominin expansion these processes are viewed as being determined by large-scale effects, such as changes in climate and vegetation spanning continents and thousands or even millions of years. However, these large-scale patterns of expansions also need to be considered as possibly resulting from the accumulation of small-scale decisions of individual hominins. Moving on a continental scale may for instance involve crossing a water barrier. We present a generalized agent-based model for simulating the crossing of a water barrier where the agents represent the hominin individuals. The model can be configured to represent a variety of movement modes across water. Here, we compare four different behavioral scenarios in conjunction with a set of water barrier configurations, in which agents move in water by either paddling, drifting, swimming or rafting. We introduce the crossing-success-rate (CSR) to quantify the performance in water crossing. Our study suggests that more focus should be directed towards the exploration of behavioral models for hominins, as directionality may be a more powerful factor for crossing a barrier than environmental opportunities alone. A prerequisite for this is to perceive the opposite shore. Furthermore, to provide a comprehensive understanding of hominin expansions, the CSR allows for the integration of results obtained from small-scale simulations into large-scale models for hominin expansion.
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- Ericson Hölzchen
- Faculty of Biosciences, Department of Paleobiology and Environment, Institute of Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- The Role of Culture in Early Expansion of Humans (ROCEEH), Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- The Role of Culture in Early Expansion of Humans (ROCEEH), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- The Role of Culture in Early Expansion of Humans (ROCEEH), Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- The Role of Culture in Early Expansion of Humans (ROCEEH), Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Heidelberg, Germany
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- National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain
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- National Research Center on Human Evolution (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain
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- Chair for Business Informatics I Trier Lab for Social Simulation (TRILABS), Trier University, Trier, Germany
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- Chair for Business Informatics I Trier Lab for Social Simulation (TRILABS), Trier University, Trier, Germany
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Cognitive Social Simulation (Branch Trier), Trier University, Trier, Germany
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Erpenbeck D, Gholami A, Hesni MA, Ranjbar MS, Galitz A, Eickhoff B, Namuth L, Schumacher T, Esmaeili HR, Wörheide G, Teimori A. Molecular biodiversity of Iranian shallow water sponges. SYST BIODIVERS 2020. [DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2020.1737978] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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- Dirk Erpenbeck
- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
- GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, 76169-14111, Iran
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- Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, 76169-14111, Iran
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- Faculty of Marine Sciences, Department of Marine Biology, Hormozgan University, Bandar Abbas, Iran
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- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Department of Biology, College of Sciences, Shiraz University, Shiraz, 71454, Iran
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- Department of Earth- & Environmental Sciences, Palaeontology and Geobiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
- GeoBio-CenterLMU, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
- SNSB - Bavarian State Collections of Palaeontology and Geology, Richard-Wagner Str. 10, Munich, 80333, Germany
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- Faculty of Sciences, Department of Biology, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, 76169-14111, Iran
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DiBattista JD, Alfaro ME, Sorenson L, Choat JH, Hobbs JA, Sinclair‐Taylor TH, Rocha LA, Chang J, Luiz OJ, Cowman PF, Friedman M, Berumen ML. Ice ages and butterflyfishes: Phylogenomics elucidates the ecological and evolutionary history of reef fishes in an endemism hotspot. Ecol Evol 2018; 8:10989-11008. [PMID: 30519422 PMCID: PMC6262737 DOI: 10.1002/ece3.4566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2018] [Revised: 08/19/2018] [Accepted: 08/29/2018] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
Abstract
For tropical marine species, hotspots of endemism occur in peripheral areas furthest from the center of diversity, but the evolutionary processes that lead to their origin remain elusive. We test several hypotheses related to the evolution of peripheral endemics by sequencing ultraconserved element (UCE) loci to produce a genome-scale phylogeny of 47 butterflyfish species (family Chaetodontidae) that includes all shallow water butterflyfish from the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula (i.e., Red Sea to Arabian Gulf) and their close relatives. Bayesian tree building methods produced a well-resolved phylogeny that elucidated the origins of butterflyfishes in this hotspots of endemism. We show that UCEs, often used to resolve deep evolutionary relationships, represent an important tool to assess the mechanisms underlying recently diverged taxa. Our analyses indicate that unique environmental conditions in the coastal waters of the Arabian Peninsula probably contributed to the formation of endemic butterflyfishes. Older endemic species are also associated with narrow versus broad depth ranges, suggesting that adaptation to deeper coral reefs in this region occurred only recently (<1.75 Ma). Even though deep reef environments were drastically reduced during the extreme low sea level stands of glacial ages, shallow reefs persisted, and as such there was no evidence supporting mass extirpation of fauna in this region.
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- Joseph D. DiBattista
- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and EngineeringKing Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwalSaudi Arabia
- Australian Museum Research Institute, Australian MuseumSydneyNew South WalesAustralia
- School of Molecular and Life SciencesCurtin UniversityPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California Los AngelesLos AngelesCalifornia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California Los AngelesLos AngelesCalifornia
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- College of Science and EngineeringJames Cook UniversityTownsvilleQueenslandAustralia
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- School of Molecular and Life SciencesCurtin UniversityPerthWestern AustraliaAustralia
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- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and EngineeringKing Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwalSaudi Arabia
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- Section of IchthyologyCalifornia Academy of SciencesSan FranciscoCalifornia
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- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary BiologyUniversity of California Los AngelesLos AngelesCalifornia
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- Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin UniversityDarwinNorthern TerritoryAustralia
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- ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef StudiesJames Cook UniversityTownsvilleQueenslandAustralia
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- Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of OxfordOxfordUK
- Museum of Paleontology and Department of Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of MichiganAnn ArborMichigan
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- Red Sea Research Center, Division of Biological and Environmental Science and EngineeringKing Abdullah University of Science and TechnologyThuwalSaudi Arabia
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Bayoumi R, De Fanti S, Sazzini M, Giuliani C, Quagliariello A, Bortolini E, Boattini A, Al-Habori M, Al-Zubairi AS, Rose JI, Romeo G, Al-Abri A, Luiselli D. Positive selection of lactase persistence among people of Southern Arabia. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2016; 161:676-684. [PMID: 27535199 DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/26/2016] [Revised: 06/07/2016] [Accepted: 08/04/2016] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
Abstract
OBJECTIVE Frequency patterns of the lactase persistence (LP)-associated -13,915 G allele and archaeological records pointing to substantial role played by southern regions in the peopling and domestication processes that involved the Arabian Peninsula suggest that Southern Arabia plausibly represented the center of diffusion of such adaptive variant. Nevertheless, a well-defined scenario for evolution of Arabian LP is still to be elucidated and the burgeoning archaeological picture of complex human migrations occurred through the peninsula is not matched by an equivalent high-resolution description of genetic variation underlying this adaptive trait. To fill this gap, we investigated diversity at a wide genomic interval surrounding the LCT gene in different Southern Arabian populations. METHODS 40 SNPs were genotyped to characterize LCT profiles of 630 Omani and Yemeni individuals to perform population structure, linkage disequilibrium, population differentiation-based and haplotype-based analyses. RESULTS Typical Arabian LP-related variation was found in Dhofaris and Yemenis, being characterized by private haplotypes carrying the -13,915 G allele, unusual differentiation with respect to northern groups and conserved homozygous haplotype-blocks, suggesting that the adaptive allele was likely introduced in the Arabian gene pool in southern populations and was then subjected to prolonged selective pressure. CONCLUSION By pointing to Yemen as one of the best candidate centers of diffusion of the Arabian-specific adaptive variant, obtained results indicate the spread of indigenous groups as the main process underlying dispersal of LP along the Arabian Peninsula, supporting a refugia model for Arabian demic movements occurred during the Terminal Pleistocene and Early Holocene.
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- Riad Bayoumi
- Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Mohammed Bin Rashid University, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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- Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Sana'a University, Sana'a, Yemen
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- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Muscat, Oman
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- Laboratory of Molecular Anthropology and Centre for Genome Biology, Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, 40126, Italy
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Kuhn SL, Raichlen DA, Clark AE. What moves us? How mobility and movement are at the center of human evolution. Evol Anthropol 2016; 25:86-97. [DOI: 10.1002/evan.21480] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Fernandes CA. Colonization time of Arabia by the White-tailed MongooseIchneumia albicaudaas inferred from mitochondrial DNA sequences. ZOOLOGY IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2013. [DOI: 10.1080/09397140.2011.10648903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Groucutt HS, Petraglia MD. The prehistory of the Arabian peninsula: deserts, dispersals, and demography. Evol Anthropol 2012; 21:113-25. [PMID: 22718479 DOI: 10.1002/evan.21308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 139] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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As a geographic connection between Africa and the rest of Eurasia, the Arabian Peninsula occupies a central position in elucidating hominin evolution and dispersals. Arabia has been characterized by extreme environmental fluctuation in the Quaternary, with profound evolutionary and demographic consequences. Despite the importance of the region, Arabia remains understudied. Recent years, however, have seen major developments in environmental studies and archeology, revealing that the region contains important records that should play a significant role in future paleoanthropological narratives.(1-3) The emerging picture of Arabia suggests that numerous dispersals of hominin populations into the region occurred. Populations subsequently followed autochthonous trajectories, creating a distinctive regional archeological record. Debates continue on the respective roles of regional hominin extinctions and population continuity, with the latter suggesting adaptation to arid conditions.
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Al-Abri A, Podgorná E, Rose JI, Pereira L, Mulligan CJ, Silva NM, Bayoumi R, Soares P, Černý V. Pleistocene-Holocene boundary in Southern Arabia from the perspective of human mtDNA variation. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2012; 149:291-8. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22131] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2012] [Accepted: 07/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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