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English Peopling of the world (recent out of Africa and Upper Paleolithic). Figures are in thousands of years ago
(kya).
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Description English: Peopling of the world (recent out of Africa and Upper Paleolithic). Figures are in thousands of years ago (kya).

Time is color coded in a scheme of increasing "frequency", red at 100 kya to violet at 0 kya. Dotted blueish lines are
meant to indicate approximate glaciation during the LGM.

Similar map: pleistoproject.wordpress.com (https://pleistoproject.wordpress.com/human-geography/migration/)

Not shown early and abortive expansions to North Africa [300 kya] and West Asia [270 kya, 130 kya] and possible
expansion to China by 120 kya. Possible "Australoid" migration to North Asia [Denisovan admixture] and the Americas
by 50 kya (these are speculative/controversial and would detract from the functionality as an "overview map" showing
generally-accepted scenarios).

Features shown:

200 kya East Africa ["200" symbolic of early H. sapiens (est. age of mt-haplogroup L ranges around 180 kya, early
divergence in Africa as early as 300 kya but cut-off for "anatomically modern" vs. "archaic" is somewhat arbitrary in
this case)
130-100 kya expansion within Africa and to the Levant
70 kya "recent Out of Africa" and coastal migrations
65 kya peopling of Oceania
60 kya "Indian" and "Indochina" (Laos) population centers
 50 kya "Near Eastern" population center (Emiran)
40 kya "East Asian" population center
40 kya peopling of Europe (Aurignacian 42 kya)
40 kya approximate peopling of Tasmania (add more detail on dispersal in Australia and to Papua?)
35 kya peopling of the Mammoth steppe (Mal'ta–Buret' culture 24kya)
35 kya Expansion from East Asian population center (Korea 35 kya, Japan possibly 35 kya / certainly by 14 kya,
Taiwan between 30 and 20 kya, Cambodia by 20kya [Sơn Vi culture] -- but possibly earlier "Austronesian"
presence 70kya?)
25 kya Beringia during the LGM
16-14 kya peopling of the Americas just after the LGM (Clovis)
12 peopling of northern Eurasia after the LGM
12 peopling of the Green Sahara [Mali]
4 Paleo-Eskimo expansion to the Arctic (AST = Arctic small tool tradition)
3-1 Austronesian expansion
1 Norse expansion to Iceland

The map only shows the major movements associated with the first lasting "peopling" of the world's regions:

early movements which did not result in lasting populations (such as the early Out of Africa movements before
70kya) are not shown
late movements into already populated regions (such as Epipaleolithic and Neolithic migrations associated with Indo-
European, Bantu, etc.) are not shown; the Austronesian (Pacific) expansion is shown even though it is much later
than such Neolithic movements because it led to the "first peopling" of the Pacific islands.

This might be addressed in updated versions (especially knowledge on the early OOA waves are subject to rapid
revision)

Made for, and based on the information in: en:Early human migrations (see also image gallery below). "Southern
Dispersal" and "peopling of Eurasia" population centers:

Metspalu, M.; Kivisild, T.; Metspalu, E.; Parik, J.; Hudjashov, G.; Kaldma, K.; Serk, P.; Karmin, M. et al. (2004).
"Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement
of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans". BMC Genetics 5: 26. doi:10.1186/1471-2156-5-26. PMC 516768.
PMID 15339343.

Date 2018
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