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Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene.

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Title: Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene.
Authors: Meyer, M. C., Aldenderfer, M. S., Wang, Z., Hoffmann, D. L., Dahl, J. A., Degering, D., Haas, W. R., Schlütz, F.
Source: Science (pre-March 2025). 1/6/2017, Vol. 355 Issue 6320, p64-67. 4p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Black and White Photograph, 1 Diagram.
Subjects: Prehistoric settlements, Holocene Epoch, Footprints, Archaeological dating, Altitudes, Statistical models, Hot springs
Geographic Terms: Tibetan Plateau
Abstract: Current models of the peopling of the higher-elevation zones of the Tibetan Plateau postulate that permanent occupation could only have been facilitated by an agricultural lifeway at ~3.6 thousand calibrated carbon-14 years before present. Here we report a reanalysis of the chronology of the Chusang site, located on the central Tibetan Plateau at an elevation of ~4270 meters above sea level. The minimum age of the site is fixed at ~7.4 thousand years (thorium-230/uranium dating), with a maximum age between ~8.20 and 12.67 thousand calibrated carbon-14 years before present (carbon-14 assays). Travel cost modeling and archaeological data suggest that the site was part of an annual, permanent, preagricultural occupation of the central plateau. These findings challenge current models of the occupation of the Tibetan Plateau. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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