Assessing earliest human settlement of Eurasia: Late Pliocene dispersions from Africa.

From: Antiquity | Date: September 1, 1999| Author: Turner, Alan | Copyright information

Introduction

The timetable of human dispersions remains a matter of major interest, whether the focus of attention centres on earliest colonization of Europe or on the wider pattern of appearance in Eurasia (Turner 1992; Huang et al. 1995; Wood & Turner 1995; Beardsley 1996; Larick & Ciochon 1996). The question of earliest European occupation remains a particularly vexed one, with exchanges of opinion over so-called long and short chronologies continuing to appear with s...

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