Response to Comment on "Permanent human occupation of the central Tibetan Plateau in the early Holocene"

We show that Zhang and Li's sedimentological model for the Chusang travertine neglects the three-dimensional information from multiple outcrops and that their optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) age of about 20,000 years for the human imprints is untenable. We highlight the robustness of ou...

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Published inScience (American Association for the Advancement of Science) Vol. 357; no. 6351
Main Authors Meyer, M C, Hoffmann, D L, Aldenderfer, M S, Haas, W R, Dahl, J A, Wang, Z, Degering, D, Schlütz, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The American Association for the Advancement of Science 11.08.2017
Subjects
Ethnography
Holocene
Humans
Hunter-gatherers
Luminescence
Mobility
Occupations
Tibet
Tibetan Plateau
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Summary:We show that Zhang and Li's sedimentological model for the Chusang travertine neglects the three-dimensional information from multiple outcrops and that their optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) age of about 20,000 years for the human imprints is untenable. We highlight the robustness of our chronology and explore reasons why Zhang and Li's OSL age is a gross overestimation of the real depositional age of the imprinted travertine.
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ISSN:0036-8075
1095-9203
DOI:10.1126/science.aam9444