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dc.contributor.authorCerasoni, Jacopo Niccolò
dc.contributor.authorHallett, Emily Yuko
dc.contributor.authorOrijemie, Emuobosa Akpo
dc.contributor.authorAshastina, Kseniia
dc.contributor.authorLucas, Mary
dc.contributor.authorFarr, Lucy
dc.contributor.authorHöhn, Alexa
dc.contributor.authorKiahtipes, Christopher A.
dc.contributor.authorBlinkhorn, James
dc.contributor.authorRoberts, Patrick
dc.contributor.authorManica, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorScerri, Eleanor M.L.
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-15T13:47:41Z
dc.date.available2023-08-15T13:47:41Z
dc.date.issued2023-02-08
dc.description.abstractThe Ihò Eléérú (or Iho Eleru) rock shelter, located in Southwest Nigeria, is the only site from which Pleistocene-age hominin fossils have been recovered in western Africa. Excavations at Iho Eleru revealed regular human occupations ranging from the Later Stone Age (LSA) to the present day. Here, we present chronometric, archaeobotanical, and paleoenvironmental findings, which include the taxonomic, taphonomic, and isotopic analyses of what is the only Pleistocene faunal assemblage documented in western Africa. Our results indicate that the local landscape surrounding Iho Eleru, although situated within a regional open-canopy biome, was forested throughout the past human occupation of the site. At a regional scale, a shift from forest- to savanna-dominated ecotonal environment occurred during a mid-Holocene warm event 6,000 years ago, with a subsequent modern reforestation of the landscape. Locally, no environmental shift was observable, placing Iho Eleru in a persistent forested “island” during the period of occupation.en_US
dc.identifier.citationCerasoni, Hallett, Orijemie, Ashastina, Lucas, Farr, Höhn, Kiahtipes, Blinkhorn, Roberts, Manica, Scerri. Human interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeria. iScience. 2023;26(3)en_US
dc.identifier.cristinIDFRIDAID 2152771
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.isci.2023.106153
dc.identifier.issn2589-0042
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/29956
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherElsevieren_US
dc.relation.journaliScience
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2023 The Author(s)en_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)en_US
dc.titleHuman interactions with tropical environments over the last 14,000 years at Iho Eleru, Nigeriaen_US
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typeTidsskriftartikkelen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US


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