Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption

Michael Petraglia; Ravi Korisettar; Nicole Boivin; Christopher Clarkson; Peter Ditchfield; Sacha Jones; Jinu Koshy; Marta Mirazón Lahr; Clive Oppenheimer; David Pyle; Richard Roberts; Jean-Luc Schwenninger; Lee Arnold; Kevin White

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Middle Paleolithic Assemblages from the Indian Subcontinent Before and After the Toba Super-Eruption

Michael Petraglia1,2,*,
Ravi Korisettar3,
Nicole Boivin1,
Christopher Clarkson4,
Peter Ditchfield5,
Sacha Jones1,
Jinu Koshy3,
Marta Mirazón Lahr1,
Clive Oppenheimer6,
David Pyle7,
Richard Roberts8,
Jean-Luc Schwenninger5,
Lee Arnold8,
Kevin White9

¹ Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.
² Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.
³ Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad 580 003, India.
⁴ School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.
⁵ Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.
⁶ Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK.
⁷ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK.
⁸ GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.
⁹ Department of Geography, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, UK.

↵* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: m.petraglia{at}human-evol.cam.ac.uk

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Science 06 Jul 2007:
Vol. 317, Issue 5834, pp. 114-116
DOI: 10.1126/science.1141564

Michael Petraglia

1 Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.

2 Human Origins Program, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA.

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For correspondence: m.petraglia@human-evol.cam.ac.uk

Ravi Korisettar

3 Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad 580 003, India.

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Nicole Boivin

1 Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.

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Christopher Clarkson

4 School of Social Science, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland 4072, Australia.

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Peter Ditchfield

5 Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

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Sacha Jones

1 Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.

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Jinu Koshy

3 Department of History and Archaeology, Karnatak University, Dharwad 580 003, India.

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Marta Mirazón Lahr

1 Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1QH, UK.

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Clive Oppenheimer

6 Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK.

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David Pyle

7 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PR, UK.

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Richard Roberts

8 GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

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Jean-Luc Schwenninger

5 Research Laboratory for Archaeology and the History of Art, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QY, UK.

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Lee Arnold

8 GeoQuEST Research Centre, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia.

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Kevin White

9 Department of Geography, University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AB, UK.

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