Curtis W. Marean is a professor of archaeology at Arizona State University.

In a 2010 article in Scientific American, Marean explained how anatomically modern humans survived the MIS 6 glacial stage 195–123 thousand years ago, a period during which the human population was limited to only a few hundreds breeding individuals. During this period, sea levels dropped more than a hundred meters and the sloping South African Agulhas Bank was transformed into a plain on which humans could survive on shellfish and wash-ups from the sea.[1]

He is currently the associate director of the Institute of Human Origins in Tempe, Arizona.[2]

See also

References

  1. Marean, Curtis W. (August 2010). "When the Sea Saved Humanity". Scientific American. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  2. "Institute Of Human Origins". Archived from the original on 2016-04-04.



This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.