By Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 14, 2024Recent findings from the Tibetan Plateau reveal that its ancient inhabitants, despite extreme conditions, preserved significant cultural exchanges with northern China, recommending expansive social networks during the Holocene period.The Tibetan Plateau, known as the greatest and largest plateau in the world, presents considerable difficulties to its inhabitants due to its severe environment. Intriguingly, they likewise found that the blades themselves were similar to the ones that had actually been developed in northern China, recommending that there was a long-distance cultural exchange between the Tibetan plateau and northern China through the neighborhoods that lived on the plateaus boundary. Now we need to look at larger locations and get more samples to see if we can go further back in time,” Ambrose said.Reference: “The earliest microblade website 6800 years ago exposes more comprehensive social dimension than previous idea at the central high altitude Tibetan plateau” by Yahui Qiu, Peixian Shu, Hong Ao, Yunxiang Zhang, Qi Wei, Xingwen Li, Honghai Chen, Hong Wang and Stanley H. Ambrose, 21 February 2024, Quaternary Science Reviews.DOI: 10.1016/ j.quascirev.2024.108551 The research study was moneyed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Fund of Shandong Province, and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research program.
By Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 14, 2024Recent findings from the Tibetan Plateau show that its ancient occupants, regardless of harsh conditions, kept significant cultural exchanges with northern China, recommending expansive social networks during the Holocene period.The Tibetan Plateau, understood as the greatest and largest plateau in the world, presents considerable difficulties to its occupants due to its extreme environment.”Using excavated artifacts, Ambrose (imagined) and his team discovered that there was a long-distance cultural exchange between the Tibetan plateau and northern China. Intriguingly, they also found that the blades themselves were similar to the ones that had been established in northern China, recommending that there was a long-distance cultural exchange between the Tibetan plateau and northern China through the neighborhoods that lived on the plateaus boundary. Now we need to look at larger locations and get more samples to see if we can go even more back in time,” Ambrose said.Reference: “The earliest microblade site 6800 years ago exposes wider social dimension than previous idea at the main high altitude Tibetan plateau” by Yahui Qiu, Peixian Shu, Hong Ao, Yunxiang Zhang, Qi Wei, Xingwen Li, Honghai Chen, Hong Wang and Stanley H. Ambrose, 21 February 2024, Quaternary Science Reviews.DOI: 10.1016/ j.quascirev.2024.108551 The study was moneyed by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Fund of Shandong Province, and the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research program.
