Interactions between Hominins and Mammalian Faunas in Southern Asia

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

As early humans and Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa, they encountered diverse communities of mammalian faunas in Asia. Here we document hominin migrations out of Africa over the last 500,000 years, discussing the degree to which humans interacted with faunas in Arabia and South Asia. Climate change seems to be the primary reason for the demise of mammalian faunas in Arabia, while in South Asia, there is broad continuity of faunas over the last 200,000 years, despite sophisticated hunting abilities and increases in human population sizes. The implications of these findings are discussed relative to mammalian species expansions, contractions and extinctions.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Human Interactions with Extinct Fauna   •
• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 22985