Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic

TY  - JOUR
JO  - Anthropologie (Brno)
TI  - Early Hominid Expansion into Eurasia: Biogeographical and Ecological Issues
AU  - Rolland N
Y1  - 1997
VL  - 35
IS  - 2
PB  - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic
SN  - 0323-1119
SP  - 101
EP  - 107
KW  - Biogeography
KW  - Faunal regions
KW  - Dispersal routes
KW  - Ancient hominids
KW  - Early Pleistocene
KW  - Endemism
KW  - Biomes
KW  - Mode 2 technology
KW  - Landbridges
KW  - Glacio-eustatic sea levels
KW  - Anthropic evidence evidence
KW  - "Long" and "short" chronologies
N2  - 
N2  - Early Pleistocene hominid expansion beyond Subsaharan Africa is discussed with reference to varying and habitat conditions, environmental change, natural obstacles, and probable dispersal routes throughout Eurasia, and to concepts from historical zoogeography. The oldest securely identified and dated anthropic evidence points to a 1.4 my datum, coincidig with Homo erectus and a mode 2 (Acheulian, Non-Acheulian) repertoire. Hominids followd natural dispersal routes along the substropical and tropical zones of Asia, then into the Far East and Central Asia, adapting to conditions characteristic of these regions. They may have colonized Europe directly out of Africa by crossing the Gibraltar Strait.
ER  -