期刊
PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY
卷 386, 期 -, 页码 119-130出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2013.05.013
关键词
Elephas hysudricus; Elephas maximus; Asian elephant; 'Ain Soda (Jordan); Ma'ayan Baruch (Israel); Middle Pleistocene
资金
- Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
- NERC [NE/F017839/2] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/F017839/2] Funding Source: researchfish
We describe new fossil remains of elephant (Elephas cf. hysudricus) from archaeological sites in the Levant: Ma'ayan Baruch (Israel) and 'Ain Soda (Jordan). Both sites date to the Middle Pleistocene based on stone artefacts typical of Levantine Late Acheulian assemblages. The elephant remains show 'primitive' dental features reminiscent of E. hysudricus from the Plio-Pleistocene of the Siwaliks (northern India), the species thought to be ancestral to Asian elephant E. maximus. Regionally, the new fossils are chronologically intermediate between an earlier (ca. 1 Ma) record of Elephas sp. from Evron Quarry (Israel), and Holocene remains of E. maximus from archaeological sites in NW Syria, Turkey, Iraq and Iran. It is unclear at present whether this represents continuity of occupation or, more plausibly, independent westward expansions. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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