Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30563
Title: Prolonged coexistence of humans and megafauna in Pleistocene Australia
Contributor(s): Trueman, Clive N G (author); Field, Judith H (author); Dortch, Joe (author); Charles, Bethan (author); Wroe, Stephen  (author)orcid 
Publication Date: 2005-06-07
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0408975102
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/30563
Abstract: Recent claims for continent wide disappearance of megafauna at 46.5 thousand calendar years ago (ka) in Australia have been used to support a "blitzkrieg" model, which explains extinctions as the result of rapid overkill by human colonizers. A number of key sites with megafauna remains that significantly postdate 46.5 ka have been excluded from consideration because of questions regarding their stratigraphic integrity. Of these sites, Cuddie Springs is the only locality in Australia where megafauna and cultural remains are found together in sequential stratigraphic horizons, dated from 36-30 ka. Verifying the stratigraphic associations found here would effectively refute the rapid-overkill model and necessitate reconsideration of the regional impacts of global climatic change on megafauna and humans in the lead up to the last glacial maximum. Here, we present geochemical evidence that demonstrates the coexistence of humans and now-extinct megafaunal species on the Australian continent for a minimum of 15 ka.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(23), p. 8381-8385
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
Place of Publication: United States of America
ISSN: 1091-6490
0027-8424
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 060303 Biological Adaptation
040308 Palaeontology (incl. Palynology)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 970104 Expanding Knowledge in the Earth Sciences
890299 Computer Software and Services not elsewhere classified
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
Appears in Collections:Journal Article
School of Environmental and Rural Science

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