PUBLIC SEMINAR: Extinctions along the last leg of the first great human migration with Dr Julien Louys
Visiting vertebrate palaeoecologist will be visiting the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide. Dr Louys is fromÌýGriffith ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ and is theÌýExecutive Editor of the scientific journal .
Title:ÌýExtinctions along the last leg of the first great human migration
When:Ìý6:00pm - Thursday, 12th September 2019
Where: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Building, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, North Terrace
RSVP: Not required but please add to your calendar
Abstract:
The journey of the first humans through Southeast Asia and into ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ represents the last leg of a migration event that began thousands of years before, andÌýas many kilometres away. It involved the first occupation of rainforests outside of Africa and the earliest evidence of significant sea crossings. Over this route, humans encountered fauna both familiar and new. However, human impact on mammal extinctions areÌýgenerally ignored or overlooked in most global syntheses of Late Pleistocene extinctions.
This is despite the region experiencing many significant losses, many of which are continuing today. Because gathering these data involves fieldwork in remote and oftenÌývery difficult to access terrains, they are rarely collected. Nevertheless, new explorations, excavations, and analyses of archaeological and palaeontological records in ancient Sunda and Wallacea are beginning to shed important new light on drivers of extinctionsÌýin Southeast Asia. The information gathered from these expeditions are critical for understanding the global megafauna extinction event and developing strategies for conservation of the species we still have left.
This event is presented by the .
Title:ÌýExtinctions along the last leg of the first great human migration
When:Ìý6:00pm - Thursday, 12th September 2019
Where: Mawson Lecture Theatre, Mawson Building, ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Adelaide, North Terrace
RSVP: Not required but please add to your calendar
Abstract:
The journey of the first humans through Southeast Asia and into ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ represents the last leg of a migration event that began thousands of years before, andÌýas many kilometres away. It involved the first occupation of rainforests outside of Africa and the earliest evidence of significant sea crossings. Over this route, humans encountered fauna both familiar and new. However, human impact on mammal extinctions areÌýgenerally ignored or overlooked in most global syntheses of Late Pleistocene extinctions.
This is despite the region experiencing many significant losses, many of which are continuing today. Because gathering these data involves fieldwork in remote and oftenÌývery difficult to access terrains, they are rarely collected. Nevertheless, new explorations, excavations, and analyses of archaeological and palaeontological records in ancient Sunda and Wallacea are beginning to shed important new light on drivers of extinctionsÌýin Southeast Asia. The information gathered from these expeditions are critical for understanding the global megafauna extinction event and developing strategies for conservation of the species we still have left.
This event is presented by the .
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