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Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World

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by Oppenheimer, Stephen


  71. In Asia, B is represented by two main branches: B4 and B5 correspond to B1 and B2 as defined in Kolman, C.J. et al. (1996) ‘Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Mongolian populations and implications for the origin of New World founders’ Genetics 142: 1321–34. For their exact correspondence, see note 38, Chapter 5. Piman Indian Group B4: Haplotype 4 in Ingman, M. et al. (2000) ‘Mitochondrial genome variation and the origin of modern humans’ Nature 408: 708–13. Japanese Group B4: Haplotype analysed in Japan and reported in Maca-Meyer, N. et al. (2001) ‘Major genomic mitochondrial lineages delineate early human expansions’ BMC Genetics 2: 13. Additional matched sites (apart from those defining B4 itself) between the two haplotypes: HVS 16189; non-HVS 499, 827, 13590, 15535. The matches are strong: The Ingman Piman haplotype 4 has a close match in another Piman Indian, Haplotype 21, in Torroni et al. (1993a) op. cit.

  72. particular individual mtDNA types: so-called ‘private’ or ‘tribal polymorphisms’. This has been interpreted to mean . . . quickly split: Torroni et al. (1993a) op. cit.

  73. three unique types not found anywhere else: the Ojibwa also have A1, which is rare in North America anyway and has been found only in Ojibwa, defined by 16126 in Torroni et al. (1993a) op. cit. (Great Lakes and Canada). Other similar A1s have been found in DNA tests on ancient bones from a pre-Columbian cemetery (Norris Farms) in Minnesota, near the Great Lakes (Stone and Stoneking op. cit.). the highest rates of the rare X type: Brown et al., op. cit. having only the dominant Y founder: Scozzari, R. et al. (1997) ‘mtDNA and Y chromosome: Specific polymorphisms in modern Ojibwa: Implications about the origin of their gene pool’ American Journal of Human Genetics 60: 241–4. Ojibwa share . . . even some northern cultural features with the Na-Dene: Algonquin tribes share the earth-diver myths of recovery from the Flood with Na-Dene speakers and with peoples living either side of the Bering Strait: Oppenheimer, S.J. (1998) Eden in the East: The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London) pp. 236–37.

  74. By a further coincidence, one of the other participants, an American of Greek ancestry, also belonged to the X clan, thus demonstrating in this very small sample the power of mtDNA to trace ancient relationships.

  75. The picture of A in the rest of North America: Stone and Stoneking op. cit.; Kolman et al., op. cit. the Fremont cultures of Great Salt Lake: Parr, R.L. et al. (1996) ‘Ancient DNA analysis of Fremont Amerindians of the Great Salt Lake wetlands’ American Journal of Physical Anthropology 99: 507–18. the extinct Fuegan tribes: Fox, C.L. (1996) ‘Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups in four tribes from Tierra del Fuego–Patagonia: Inferences about the peopling of the Americas’ Human Biology 68: 855–71. The Fuegans contrast strongly with the Central American Chibcha tribes, who all have A and B but lack C and D (Stone and Stoneking op. cit.).

  76. B remained younger in Central America: Torroni et al. (1993a) op. cit.; Forster et al., op. cit. She is old in South America: Table 2 in Stone and Stoneking op. cit.; Forster et al. op. cit.

  77. Russian geneticist Yelena Stariovskaya: Stariovskaya et al., op. cit. at least one close B4 match: see note 71.

  78. First raised thirty years ago: Fladmark, K.R. (1979) ‘Routes: Alternate migration corridors for early man in North America’ American Antiquity 44(1): 55–69; see also Fladmark, K.R. (1990) ‘Possible early human occupation of the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia’ Canadian Journal of Archaeology 14: 183–97. Two sites on the southern Peruvian coast: Sandweiss, D.H. et al. (1998) ‘Quebrada Tacahuay: Early South American maritime adaptations’ Science 281: 1830–32; Keefer, D.K. et al. (1998) ‘Early maritime economy and El Niño events at Quebrada Tacahuay, Peru’ Science 281: 1833–5.

  79. Leonard, J. et al. (2000) ‘Population genetics of Ice Age brown bears’ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 97: 1651–64.

  80. remains and artefacts on Prince of Wales Island: Dixon, E.J. (1999) Bones, Boats, and Bison: Archaeology and the First Colonization of Western North America (University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque) evidence of beachcombing dating to 11,600 years ago: Erlandson, J.M. (1996) ‘An archaeological and palaeontological chronology for Daisy Cave (CA-SMI-261), San Miguel Island, California’, Radiocarbon 38(2): 355–73. The date of first human presence of 10,500 years ago given in this publication has now been pushed back to perhaps 11,600 years ago. Radiocarbon tests from a woman’s bones: This redating was first reported by the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday 12 April 1999.

  81. Fedje, D.W. and Josenhans, H. (2000) ‘Drowned forests and archaeology on the continental shelf of British Columbia, Canada’ Geology 28: 99–102.

  INDEX

  A mtDNA group 231, 255, 264, 303, 305, 306–7, 308, 309, 310–13, 331, 332, 336–7, 341, 342

  Abdur 77, 80, 124–7

  Abel (D/E, YAP) paternal clan 84, 158, 188–90, 191, 236–7, 269

  ‘aboriginal groups’ 201–2

  Aboriginal Malays 158, 261–2, 264–6, 275

  academic disputes 280–1, 286, 288

  Acheulian tools 15, 73

  Acosta, José de 279

  Adam see ‘Out-of-Africa Adam’; Y chromosome

  Adam gene see Y chromosome Adovasio, James 291

  Afontova Gora II 206

  Africa, changes to climate of 51–4

  African exodus

  northern route 54–67

  possible routes 50–1

  see also single exodus; southern route

  African Late Stone Age 118

  African Middle Stone Age 117–20

  Africans see Anatomically Modern Humans; modern Africans

  Ahmarian tools 146–7

  Aiello, Leslie 9, 25

  Ainu, the 205, 206, 209, 267, 269

  Altai, the 152, 223, 225, 240

  Americas

  beachcomber remnants 324, 338–9

  Cactus Hill site 286, 292

  Clovis-first theory 281–7

  date of first occupation 283–4

  different cultures preserved in 335–8

  disagreement over first occupation 280–1, 287–94

  entry point 341

  genetic diversity in 307–13

  genetic evidence of first occupation 302–22, 327–31, 331–4

  Hebior site 293

  Kennewick Man 315–17, 321–2

  language diversity in 294, 296–300

  at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 247, 300

  Meadowcroft Rockshelter 286, 291–2

  Monte Verde site 286, 287–90

  number of migrations into 301, 305, 306–7, 319–31, 341–2

  Palaeo-Indians 325

  re-expansion of North America 308–13

  Schaefer site 293

  single entry theory 320–1

  Solutrean hypothesis 317–19

  South America first colonization dates 322–4

  Spirit Cave Man 322

  stone tools 282–3, 292–3

  Topper/Big Pine site 286, 292–3

  Wizards Beach Man 322

  Amerind speakers 300–1, 305, 306–7, 310–13, 336

  Anatomically Modern Humans

  ancestors of 107

  characteristics of 47, 202

  stone technology of 98–103

  Andaman Islands 157

  Arabian Desert 60, 68

  Armenians 138

  Arnhem Land shelters 160

  art

  African Middle Stone Age painting 120–1

  Australian xvii, 29, 56, 108, 112–13, 160

  Bhimbetka caves 121

  European cave paintings 29, 55, 92, 108, 121

  Mal’ta 226, 245

  Saharan cliff paintings 52

  Upper Palaeolithic 29, 92

  Asia

  European founders from 150–3

  at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 247, 350

  mammalian movement into 67–8

  see also Central Asia; East Asia;

  Island Southeast Asia;

  Mongoloid populations; Southr />
  Asia; Southeast Asia

  Aurignacian culture 131–3, 138, 144, 148

  Australia

  art in xvii, 29, 56, 108, 112–13, 160

  colonization of (northern route theory) 59–61

  colonization of (southern route theory) 57–8, 77–8

  date of colonization of 82, 109, 159–71

  single exodus descendants in 171

  window of opportunity theory 161–6

  Y chromosome main types in 191

  Australians

  physical appearance 174

  skin colour 199

  skull size reduction 204

  teeth shape 209

  australopithecines 5–7, 8, 10, 13–14

  Azerbaijanis 138

  B mtDNA group 231, 263, 264, 305, 308, 310–13, 333–4, 337–8, 340–2

  Bailliet, Graciela 314

  Baldwin, Mark 19, 30

  Bandelt, Hans-Jurgen 61, 309, 314

  Baradostian industry 147

  Basque region 138, 251

  beachcombing

  Australian sites 163–4

  begins in African Middle Stone Age 124–7

  evidence for southern exodus 76–7, 80

  remnants in Americas 324, 338–9

  tools at Red Sea site 99

  trail around Indian Ocean 156–9

  bear mtDNA 339

  Bednarik, Robert 121

  Bellwood, Peter 167, 168, 261, 276

  Berber motif 63

  Berbers 63, 139

  Berhe, Seife 125–6

  Bering Strait 309

  Beringia 309–13, 321, 334, 338, 341–2

  Bhimbetka caves 121

  biology

  creationist view of language 29–32

  European cultural revolution and xvi–xvii, 107–28

  relationship with culture 18–21, 106–14

  bipedalism 4–5, 13–14

  blades 91, 100–3, 115, 117, 118, 272, 273

  bone tools 118–19, 148, 274

  Bowdler, Sandra 167

  brain

  asymmetry 30–1

  and body size 22

  development 23

  language and size increase of 25–8, 31–3

  maturation 22

  size increase 7–13, 16–19, 361

  sociability and size increase of 24–5

  volumes 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16–18, 21

  Broca’s area 28, 30

  Bronowski, Jacob 1

  Brookes, Alison 117–27, 346

  brown bear mtDNA 339

  Brown, Michael 318

  Brown, Peter 269

  built hearths 104–6

  Bulbeck, David 267, 268, 274

  Burials 105–6

  C mtDNA group 231, 234–5, 255, 264, 305, 308, 310–13, 331, 332, 337, 341

  Cactus Hill site 286, 292

  Cain (C, RPS4Y) paternal clan 84, 171, 184, 187, 190–1, 236, 269, 270, 331

  Cann, Rebecca 45

  Carpathian Mountains 252

  Caton-Thompson, Gertrude 76

  Caucasus, the 145–7

  Central Asia

  dating colonization of 348

  genetic origins in 235

  at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 253–5

  routes into 218–24, 236–7

  transition between East and West 191–2

  Central Narmada Basin 73

  Cerebellum 22–3

  cerebral cortex 22–3

  Chamberlin, Thomas 281

  Chatters, James 315–16

  Chauvet Cave paintings 29, 55, 92, 108, 121

  Chenchu people 157, 182, 183–4, 185, 187

  Chile, Monte Verde site 286, 287–90

  chimpanzees

  close relationship with humans 33

  hunting by 12–13

  language abilities of 27–8

  problem-solving skills of 27

  tool use by 8, 20–1, 26–7

  China

  genetic origins in 227

  Mongoloid replacement in 268–70

  technical influences at LGM 272, 274

  Chinese Palaeolithic cultures 272–3

  Chomsky, Noam 29, 31

  chopper-chopping tools 272, 274

  classical population genetics 42, 49–50

  climate

  dating using 354–5

  influence of 3–4, 18, 51–4

  see also global cooling; global warming; ice age cycles; Last Glacial Maximum

  Clovis-first theory 281–7

  Coevolution 19–21

  colour of skin 198–200

  Condillac, Étienne Bonnot de 28, 31

  Cooper, Alan 339

  cooperative hunting 12

  Corballis, Michael 28, 31

  core technologies 101, 103, 115

  cortical connections 23

  Crick, Francis 35–6

  Crow, Tim 30

  culture

  European biological revolution theory xvi–xvii, 107–28

  Europe’s two waves of 130–1

  learning of 20–1

  regional differences in progression rate 110

  relationship with biology 18–21, 106–14

  see also art

  D mtDNA group 231, 255, 264, 268, 305, 306–7, 308, 310–13, 332–3, 337, 341

  Darwin, Charles 34, 36

  dating, precision of 354–6

  Deloria, Vine 282

  Diamond, Jared 93

  Diet 9–12, 76–7, 124–7, 203–4

  Dillehay, Tom 287

  Disease 358–61

  Diuktai technology 276

  diversity see genetic diversity; language

  Dixon, Robert 297

  Dmanisi humans 69–72

  DNA

  analysis of 174

  ancient 317

  discovery of 35–6

  see also mtDNA; Y chromosome

  dolichocephaly 205

  Dravidian peoples 181

  dry exodus theory 78–9

  Dunbar, Robin 24–5

  E mtDNA group 231, 263, 264

  Early Upper Palaeolithic 148, 149

  East Asia

  dating colonization of 348

  low level tools used in 271–2

  migration to Southeast Asia 263–6

  north-south division in 226–8

  physical appearance in 205

  Eemian interglacial 53, 72

  Egyptian child (Taramsa Hill) 56

  Elton, Sarah 10, 11

  Englefield, Ronald 28, 31

  environment see climate Erlandson, Jon 339

  Ethiopia 67

  Europa (U) maternal clan 134–9, 179, 182

  Europe

  Aurignacian culture 131–3, 138, 144, 148

  Gravettian culture 144–9

  at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) 244–50, 349–50

  two waves of culture into 130–1

  European biological revolution theory xvi–xvii, 107–28

  European Middle Palaeolithic 117

  European Neanderthals 16

  European Upper Palaeolithic 55, 100, 107–28

  Europeans

  debate over out-of-Africa origins 89–93

  northern route theory and 54–61

  South Asian origins of 84–7, 139–44, 144, 152–4

  teeth shape 206

  Eve see mtDNA; Mitochondrial Eve; ‘Out-of-Africa Eve’

  Eve genes see mtDNA

  evolution, continuing 362–3

  F mtDNA group 158, 231, 263, 264

  face

  flattening 7, 205

  shape 201, 203, 205

  face-recognition 196

  Fedje, Daryl 340

  Fertile Crescent 60, 85, 133, 138, 140–1, 143, 144

  Fiedel, Stuart 288–90, 292

  Fladmark, Knut 338, 341

  flaked stone industry 272, 273, 274

  Foley, Robert 57–8, 61, 72, 103, 115

  food see diet

  Forster, Peter 263, 309, 310–13, 337

  founder effects 17
3, 214

  Fullager, Robert 160

  G mtDNA group 231, 264

  Gadaba people 157

  Gamble, Clive 24, 91, 108, 148

  Gate of Grief 67–8, 77, 78–9

  gene-flow levelling theory 112–13

  genetic assimilation 19–21

  genetic diversity

  effect on physical appearance 172, 174–5

  genetic drift and 172–3

  genetic intervention and 361

  Mongoloid populations 210

  nuclear genetic markers and 173–4

  present-day lack of 357–8

  retained in South Asia 175–7, 191–2

  transition across Americas 307–13

  genetic drift 64–6, 172–3, 214–18, 330–1

  genetic intervention 360–2

  genetic palaeontology 347

  genetics

  quality of evidence 352–4

  revolution in 33–5

  Geographical Society Cave 273

  global cooling 4

  global warming 52, 356

  Goodall, Jane 27

  Goodyear, Al 292–3

  Gould, Stephen Jay 217

  gracile features 161, 175, 203, 205, 267

  Gravettian culture 144–9

  Gravettian technocomplex 148

  Great Lakes of North America 247

  Greater Andamanese 158

  green North African refuges 55–6

  Greenberg hypothesis 300–1, 305, 306–7

  Greenberg, Joseph 297, 300–1

  Grindstones 120

  Guanjun, Shen 170

  Gulf of Aden 80

  Gunung Runtuh cave 167

  Guthrie, Dale 214–17, 228, 244, 257

  Hadramaut peoples 157, 175

  haematite ‘pencils’ 121

  Hammer, Mike 188

  Han ethnic group 227

  Hanish al Kubra 79

  Harrison, Tom 166

  Haua Fteah 139

  Haynes, C. Vance 283, 287, 288, 291, 292, 293

  Hearths 104–6

  Hebior site 293

  heredity see genetics

  Heyerdahl, Thor xvii

  Higgins, Jesse 282

  Himalayas 219

  Ho paternal line (group O) 239, 265

  Holmes, William Henry 281

  Homo genus 7, 10–11, 25, 30, 72

  Homo erectus xvi, 10, 14–15, 16, 23, 30, 68, 72, 98, 271

  Homo ergaster 9, 10, 14, 69

  Homo georgicus 69

  Homo habilis 8, 10, 11, 15, 30, 69

  Homo heidelbergensis 30, 72, 98

 

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