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Nat Commun ; 12(1): 3, 2021 01 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33414467

RESUMO

Rapid environmental change is a catalyst for human evolution, driving dietary innovations, habitat diversification, and dispersal. However, there is a dearth of information to assess hominin adaptions to changing physiography during key evolutionary stages such as the early Pleistocene. Here we report a multiproxy dataset from Ewass Oldupa, in the Western Plio-Pleistocene rift basin of Olduvai Gorge (now Oldupai), Tanzania, to address this lacuna and offer an ecological perspective on human adaptability two million years ago. Oldupai's earliest hominins sequentially inhabited the floodplains of sinuous channels, then river-influenced contexts, which now comprises the oldest palaeolake setting documented regionally. Early Oldowan tools reveal a homogenous technology to utilise diverse, rapidly changing environments that ranged from fern meadows to woodland mosaics, naturally burned landscapes, to lakeside woodland/palm groves as well as hyper-xeric steppes. Hominins periodically used emerging landscapes and disturbance biomes multiple times over 235,000 years, thus predating by more than 180,000 years the earliest known hominins and Oldowan industries from the Eastern side of the basin.


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Antropologia , Meio Ambiente , Hominidae , Paleontologia , Adaptação Fisiológica , Animais , Arqueologia , Biomarcadores , Carvão Vegetal , Dieta/história , Ecossistema , Fósseis/história , História Antiga , Hominidae/fisiologia , Humanos , Plantas , Pólen , Tanzânia , Tecnologia
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Science ; 335(6075): 1483-6, 2012 Mar 23.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22442481

RESUMO

Giant vertebrates dominated many Pleistocene ecosystems. Many were herbivores, and their sudden extinction in prehistory could have had large ecological impacts. We used a high-resolution 130,000-year environmental record to help resolve the cause and reconstruct the ecological consequences of extinction of Australia's megafauna. Our results suggest that human arrival rather than climate caused megafaunal extinction, which then triggered replacement of mixed rainforest by sclerophyll vegetation through a combination of direct effects on vegetation of relaxed herbivore pressure and increased fire in the landscape. This ecosystem shift was as large as any effect of climate change over the last glacial cycle, and indicates the magnitude of changes that may have followed megafaunal extinction elsewhere in the world.


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Ecossistema , Extinção Biológica , Vertebrados , Animais , Ascomicetos , Biomassa , Carvão Vegetal , Mudança Climática , Incêndios , Fósseis , Herbivoria , Humanos , Plantas , Dinâmica Populacional , Queensland , Tempo , Árvores
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