Human habitation in Central Asia sparks lecture

<p>How long have humans inhabited greater Central Asia? John Olsen, a faculty member at the University of Arizona, will address this question during a free lecture at 7 p.m., April 17, in Life Sciences Center A-191 on ASU’s Tempe campus.</p><separator></separator><p>The lecture is titled “The Initial Peopling of the Tibet Plateau and Mongolia.”</p><separator></separator><p>Archaeological studies undertaken during the last decade in Mongolia, China and Tibet shed light on the earliest prehistoric human habitation of a varied ecological corridor running from Lake Baikal in southern Siberia, south through the Gobi Desert and up to the elevated Tibetan Plateau, north of the Himalayan massif, Olsen says.</p><separator></separator><p>The lecture is sponsored by the ASU School of Human Evolution and Social Change, and the Central Arizona Society of the Archaeological Institute of America.</p><separator></separator><p>For more information, contact Liz Griesman at (623) 974-0297 or elizabeth.griesman@asu.edu.</p>