Winter-to-summer seasonal migration of microlithic human activities on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

ABSTRACT: The Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (QTP) has become a valuable site for investigation of adaptive regimes of prehistoric humans to extreme environments. At present most studies have focused solely on a single site. Using a more integrated approach that covers the complete scope of the plateau is needed to better understand the expansion logic of prehistoric humans moving towards the plateau. Here, we conducted accelerator mass spectrometry ¹⁴C dating of two microlithic sites. Canxiongashuo (CXGS) and Shalongka (SLK), which are located at the inner and marginal areas of the QTP, respectively. By using geographic information system, literature, and natural environmental factors, we constructed a model for the relationship between traveling distance and time, and we also used these factors

SUBMITTER: Hou G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7363859 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature