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ArticleScience advances2020

Human footprints provide snapshot of last interglacial ecology in the Arabian interior.

Mathew Stewart, Richard Clark-Wilson, Paul S Breeze, Klint Janulis, Ian Candy, Simon J Armitage, David B Ryves, Julien Louys, Mathieu Duval, Gilbert J Price and 9 more

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Article in Science advances, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

19 authors.

Mathew StewartExtreme Events Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany. mstewart@ice.mpg.de richard.clark-wilson@rhul.ac.uk petraglia@shh.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0413-8133
Richard Clark-WilsonDepartment of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK. mstewart@ice.mpg.de richard.clark-wilson@rhul.ac.uk petraglia@shh.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0001-9619-5778
Paul S BreezeDepartment of Geography, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2575-8021
Klint JanulisSchool of Archaeology, University of Oxford, 36 Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1172-232X
Ian CandyDepartment of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.
Simon J ArmitageDepartment of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1480-9188
David B RyvesGeography and Environment, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leics LE11 3TU, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-7572-165X
Julien LouysAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-7539-0689
Mathieu DuvalAustralian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), Environmental Futures Research Institute, Griffith University, Nathan, QLD, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-3181-7753
Gilbert J PriceSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, St. Lucia QLD 4072, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-8406-4594
Patrick CuthbertsonDepartment of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1507-8455
Marco A BernalFundación Instituto de Investigación de Prehistoria y Evolución Humama. PALEOMÁGINA, Centro de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Sierra Mágina Calle Nueva s/n; 23537 Bedmar (Jaén), Spain.
Nick A DrakeDepartment of Geography, King's College London, London, UK.
Abdullah M AlsharekhDepartment of Archaeology, College of Tourism and Archaeology, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-2666-3262
Badr ZahraniSaudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0002-5135-5843
Abdulaziz Al-OmariSaudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-0638-348X
Patrick RobertsDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany.
Huw S GroucuttExtreme Events Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology, Hans-Knöll-Strasse 8, 07745 Jena, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9111-1720
Michael D PetragliaDepartment of Archaeology, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Kahlaische Strasse 10, D-07743 Jena, Germany. mstewart@ice.mpg.de richard.clark-wilson@rhul.ac.uk petraglia@shh.mpg.de.ORCID 0000-0003-2522-5727

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The nature of human dispersals out of Africa has remained elusive because of the poor resolution of paleoecological data in direct association with remains of the earliest non-African people. Here, we report hominin and non-hominin mammalian tracks from an ancient lake deposit in the Arabian Peninsula, dated within the last interglacial. The findings, it is argued, likely represent the oldest securely dated evidence for

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PMCPMC7500939

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