Prolonged coexistence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia.
Prolonged coexistence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia.
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更新世澳大利亚人类与巨型动物长期共存。
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发表时间：
2005
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11.1
通讯作者：
S. Wroe
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作者：
C. Trueman;Judith H. Field;J. Dortch;B. Charles;S. Wroe
最近声称在4.65万年前（ka）在澳大利亚大陆范围内消失的巨型动物被用来支持“闪电战”模型，该模型解释了人类殖民者快速过度杀戮的结果。一些关键地点与巨型动物仍然是显着postdate 46.5 ka已被排除在外的考虑，因为他们的地层完整性的问题。在这些遗址中，卡迪斯普林斯是澳大利亚唯一一个在连续地层中同时发现巨型动物和文化遗迹的地方，其年代为36-30 ka。这里发现的地层组合将有效地反驳快速过度杀伤模型，并有必要重新考虑全球气候变化对巨型动物和人类的区域影响，直到末次冰期最大。在这里，我们提出的地球化学证据表明，人类和现已灭绝的巨型动物物种在澳大利亚大陆的共存至少15万年。
Recent claims for continent wide disappearance of megafauna at 46.5 thousand calendar years ago (ka) in Australia have been used to support a "blitzkrieg" model, which explains extinctions as the result of rapid overkill by human colonizers. A number of key sites with megafauna remains that significantly postdate 46.5 ka have been excluded from consideration because of questions regarding their stratigraphic integrity. Of these sites, Cuddie Springs is the only locality in Australia where megafauna and cultural remains are found together in sequential stratigraphic horizons, dated from 36-30 ka. Verifying the stratigraphic associations found here would effectively refute the rapid-overkill model and necessitate reconsideration of the regional impacts of global climatic change on megafauna and humans in the lead up to the last glacial maximum. Here, we present geochemical evidence that demonstrates the coexistence of humans and now-extinct megafaunal species on the Australian continent for a minimum of 15 ka.