Hominin cultural and biological contact during MIS 4-2 on the Palearctic and Saharo-Arabian intersection: Northern edge of the Iranian Plateau

MIS 4-2 期间古北界和撒哈罗-阿拉伯交汇处的古人类文化和生物接触：伊朗高原北缘

• 批准号: 500596274
• 负责人: Dr. Elham Ghasidian
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Neanderthal Museum
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/500596274?language=en
• 关键词: Hominin; cultural; biological; contact; during

The Upper Pleistocene hominin diversity and adaptation to the new environments of southwestern Asia are basic issues in Paleoanthropology. Due to its location, the Iranian Plateau in southwestern Asia functioned as crossroads for hominin migrations between Africa, Europe, Central Asia and the far East, thus playing an influential role in the history of human evolution. In addition, proximity and the intertwining of two different biogeographical realms of Palearctic and Saharo-Arabian zones in the Iranian Plateau, potentially, played an important role in biocultural exchanges and evolution of our lineage. The proposed project focuses on Sorheh Rockshelter of southern piedmonts of the Alborz Mountains located at the intersection of these two realms. This special condition hypothesizes that this region was repeatedly populated by different hominins arriving from the north and west: Neanderthals from Southern Caspian Corridor and Zagros Mountains, and from the south: Homo sapiens from inner parts of the Iranian Central Plateau, during long period of MIS 4-3 towards MIS 2.The preliminary investigations at Sorheh indicates novel hominin behavioral and settlement systems, known as Initial Upper Paleolithic (IUP) in the Levant, eastern Europe and Siberia. The analysis of its material culture will be carried out by applying the most updated and novel scientific proxies. In addition to lithic techno-typological, micromorphological and faunal analyses, sedaDNA, ZooMS and stable isotope are employed for the first time. Collecting samples for absolute dating including OSL and 14C dates is an important foundation for this research, for Sorheh provided the first chronological history on the IUP in the Iranian Plateau. The project plans to reassess stratified lithic collections suspended to contain IUP materials including Warwasi and Bawa Yawan rockshelters in the Zagros Mountains of Palearctic and Mirak open air site in the Iranian Central Plateau of the Saharo-Arabian realm.A combination of these methods will unravel for the first time, a physiogeographic, chronostratigraphic and anthropogenic picture of the IUP in the Iranian Plateau. Given that, this research can aid in deciphering the IUP hominins both physically and behaviorally.

亚洲西南部晚更新世人类的多样性及其对新环境的适应是古人类学的基本问题。位于亚洲西南部的伊朗高原因其地理位置而成为非洲、欧洲、中亚和远东之间的人类迁徙的十字路口，从而在人类进化史上发挥了重要作用。此外，在伊朗高原的古北和撒哈拉-阿拉伯地区的两个不同的地理区域的接近和交织，潜在的，在生物文化交流和我们的血统的演变发挥了重要作用。拟议项目的重点是位于这两个领域交叉点的Alborz山脉南部山麓的Sorheh Rockshelter。这种特殊情况假设，该地区反复居住着来自北部和西部的不同古人类：来自南里海走廊和扎格罗斯山脉的尼安德特人，以及来自南部的人：伊朗中央高原内部的智人，在MIS 4-3到MIS 2的漫长时期。在Sorheh的初步调查表明，新的人类行为和定居系统，旧石器时代初期（IUP），分布在黎凡特、东欧和西伯利亚。其物质文化的分析将通过应用最新和最新的科学代理进行。首次采用了SedaDNA、ZooMS和稳定同位素等技术进行了岩性技术类型学、微形态学和动物区系分析。收集样品进行绝对测年，包括OSL和14 C测年，是这项研究的重要基础，因为Sorheh提供了伊朗高原IUP的第一个年代学历史。该项目计划重新评估暂停包含IUP材料的分层石质收集物，包括位于古北极扎格罗斯山脉的Warwasi和Bawa Yawan岩石掩体以及位于撒哈拉-阿拉伯地区伊朗中央高原的Mirak露天场地。这些方法的组合将首次揭示伊朗高原IUP的自然地理，年代地层和人为图片。鉴于此，这项研究可以帮助破译IUP人类的身体和行为。