The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000-30,000 years ago.
The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000-30,000 years ago.
Margaret W. Blome,A. Cohen,2 Authors,J. Russell
2012 · DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.01.011
Journal of Human Evolution · 285 Citations
TLDR
It is argued that at a continental scale, population and climate changes were asynchronous and likely occurred under different regimes of climate forcing, creating alternating opportunities for migration into adjacent regions, and strongly support the hypothesis of hominin occupation of the Sahara during discrete humid intervals ~135-115 ka and 105-75 ka.