Near East Anthropology

In the article, "The Lower Paleolithic of the Near East" by Ofer Bar-Yosef discussed during the Plio-Pleistocene the Near East formed a safe terrestrial bridge for animals to cross over through Africa, Asia, and Europe (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). The Near East will continue to be considered as the only evidence for the hominids migration into other regions outside of Africa (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). The successful adaptation of hominids into Western Asia resulted into their mobility at even greater distance into southeast Asia (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). Therefore, detecting the earliest sites in the Near East that identify the pathway of Homo erectus inhabitants into Eurasia is significant (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 212). With that being said, these sites …show more content…
erectus inhabitants (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 214). Homo erectus' dispersals could have resulted in the climatic modification within the northern hemisphere by the glacial cycles (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 214). As an alternative, Turner (1992) suggested a structure recommended scavenge chances for those involved with the early hominid species were limited when carcass destroyed carnivores, for instance, hyenas and enormous canidaes, exceeded  carcass makers such as machaironts including feline cats (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 214). In the recording of the early sites in North Africa, it wasn't impossible that the first hominid movements occurred along either the Syro African Rift or the Nile valley (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 214). In addition, it has also been suggested that during the Lower Pleistocene including the earliest part of the middle Pleistocene that a couple of the early H. erectus hominid species no longer existed (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg. 214). Nowadays, the explanation is that hominids extended onto temperate Europe about 0.5 Ma (Bar-Yosef, Ofer, pg.