Little is known of the earliest hominins who crossed Central Asia. Over the last four years, a team on which I am a PI has been working to understand how our ancestors survived in their environments. This paper is the summary of my PhD student Aljasil Chirakkal's thesis. Proud of him!
Loess–paleosol sequences in southern Tajikistan offer a valuable yet underexplored archive for reconstructing early human–environment interactions acr…