Abstract:
:Most researchers believe that anatomically modern humans (AMH) first appeared in Africa 160-190 ka ago, and would not have reached eastern Asia until ∼50 ka ago. However, the credibility of these scenarios might have been compromised by a largely inaccurate and compressed chronological framework previously established for hominin fossils found in China. Recently there has been a growing body of evidence indicating the possible presence of AMH in eastern Asia ca. 100 ka ago or even earlier. Here we report high-precision mass spectrometric U-series dating of intercalated flowstone samples from Huanglong Cave, a recently discovered Late Pleistocene hominin site in northern Hubei Province, central China. Systematic excavations there have led to the in situ discovery of seven hominin teeth and dozens of stone and bone artifacts. The U-series dates on localized thin flowstone formations bracket the hominin specimens between 81 and 101 ka, currently the most narrow time span for all AMH beyond 45 ka in China, if the assignment of the hominin teeth to modern Homo sapiens holds. Alternatively this study provides further evidence for the early presence of an AMH morphology in China, through either independent evolution of local archaic populations or their assimilation with incoming AMH. Along with recent dating results for hominin samples from Homo erectus to AMH, a new extended and continuous timeline for Chinese hominin fossils is taking shape, which warrants a reconstruction of human evolution, especially the origins of modern humans in eastern Asia.
journal_name
J Hum Evoljournal_title
Journal of human evolutionauthors
Shen G,Wu X,Wang Q,Tu H,Feng YX,Zhao JXdoi
10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.05.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2013-08-01 00:00:00pages
162-7issue
2eissn
0047-2484issn
1095-8606pii
S0047-2484(13)00119-Xjournal_volume
65pub_type
杂志文章abstract::A dentate mandible and proximal femur of Mesopithecus pentelicusWagner, 1839 are described from the Shuitangba lignite mine in Zhaotong Prefecture, northeastern Yunnan Province, China. The remains were retrieved from sediments just below those that yielded a juvenile Lufengpithecus cranium and are dated at about ∼6.4 ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102851
更新日期:2020-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Environmental interpretation of fossil assemblages requires an accurate reconstruction of the community from which the assemblage was derived, which in turn depends on the quality of a comparative model usually based on the study of modern equivalents. The degree of inaccuracy introduced by taphonomic and other types ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.03.006
更新日期:2005-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Buia Homo site, also known as Wadi Aalad, is an East African paleoanthropological site near the village of Buia that, due to its very rich yield from the late Early Pleistocene, has been intensively investigated since 1994. In this paper, which reports on the finds of the 2010-2011 excavations, we include new foss...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.10.005
更新日期:2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::As the closest living sister group of anthropoids, tarsiers (Family Tarsiidae) are an important group in primate evolution. However, their fossil record is poor: only four species have been described, two from the Eocene of China and two from the Miocene of Thailand. All are from outside the range of the living specie...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.015
更新日期:2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::According to the "nocturnal visual predation hypothesis" (NVPH), the convergent eyes and orbits of primates result from selection for improved stereoscopic depth perception to facilitate manual capture of prey at night. Within primates, haplorhines share additional derived orbital morphologies, including a postorbital...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.04.010
更新日期:2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study we examine the labial and occlusal surfaces of incisors and canines of hominins recovered from the Sima de los Huesos (SH), middle Pleistocene site, in order to establish the possible extra-masticatory use of anterior teeth. We have compared the microwear of these fossils with microwear from the anterior...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.04.007
更新日期:2008-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Platyrrhines are a diverse group of primates that presently occupy a broad range of tropical-equatorial environments in the Americas. However, most of the fossil platyrrhine species of the early Miocene have been found at middle and high latitudes. Although the fossil record of New World monkeys has improved considera...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.07.015
更新日期:2017-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Phalangeal curvature is a commonly used morphological feature for the interpretation of extant and fossil primate locomotor behaviour. Here, we build on a recent biomechanical study (Richmond, 2007) in two ways: first, we use a 3D micro-FE model, which models the real internal microstructure (i.e., cortical thickness ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.12.008
更新日期:2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Papionina is a geographically widespread subtribe of African cercopithecid monkeys whose evolutionary history is of particular interest to anthropologists. The phylogenetic relationships among arboreal mangabeys (Lophocebus), baboons (Papio), and geladas (Theropithecus) remain unresolved. Molecular phylogenetic an...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.003
更新日期:2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Geological data from the Bura Hasuma region at Koobi Fora provide important constraints for estimating the ages of hominin fossils recovered there, including the cranium KNM-ER 1813. Strata of the upper Burgi, KBS, and Okote members in this part of Koobi Fora reflect three depositional regimes driven by changing paleo...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.05.007
更新日期:2009-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Adaptations indicative of habitual bipedalism are present in the earliest recognized hominins. However, debate persists about various aspects of bipedal locomotor behavior in fossil hominins, including the nature of gait kinematics, locomotor variability across different species, and the degree to which various austra...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.03.008
更新日期:2018-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Despite several decades of research, there remains a lack of consensus on the extent to which bonobos are paedomorphic (juvenilized) chimpanzees in terms of cranial morphology. This study reexamines the issue by comparing the ontogeny of cranial shape in cross-sectional samples of bonobos (Pan paniscus) and chimpanzee...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.12.005
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::We compare adult and intact neonatal pelves, using a pelvic sagittal variable, the angle of sacral incidence, which presents significant correlations with vertebral curvature in adults and plays an important role in sagittal balance of the trunk on the lower limbs. Since the lumbar curvature develops in the child in a...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.002
更新日期:2013-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Little is known about the biogeographical and evolutionary histories of macaques (Macaca spp.) in East Asia because the phylogenetic positions of fossil species remain unclear. Here we examined the zygomaxillary remains of a fossil macaque (M. cf. robusta) from the Durubong Cave Complex, South Korea, that dates back t...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.02.002
更新日期:2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Jerimalai is a rock shelter in East Timor with cultural remains dated to 42,000 years ago, making it one of the oldest known sites of modern human activity in island Southeast Asia. It has special global significance for its record of early pelagic fishing and ancient shell fish hooks. It is also of regional significa...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.09.004
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::The sample of Anapithecus from Rudabánya, Hungary, is remarkable in preserving a large number of immature individuals. We used perikymata counts, measurements of root length and cuspal enamel thickness, and observations of the sequence of tooth germs that cross match specific developmental stages in Anapithecus to con...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2005.03.008
更新日期:2005-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::It has been argued that changes in the relative sizes of visual system structures predated an increase in brain size and provide evidence of brain reorganization in hominins. However, data about the volume and anatomical limits of visual brain structures in the extant taxa phylogenetically closest to humans-the apes-r...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2009.11.011
更新日期:2010-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::The south coast of South Africa provides the earliest evidence for Middle Stone Age (MSA) coastal resource exploitation by early Homo sapiens. In coastal archaeology worldwide, there has been a debate over the general productivity of intertidal foraging, leading to studies that directly measure productivity in some re...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.008
更新日期:2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The greatly diversified locomotor behaviors in the Hominoidea impose different mechanical requirements in the upper limb of each species. As forearm rotation has a major role in locomotion, the skeletal structures involved in this movement may display differences among taxa that reflect functional adaptations. To test...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.08.004
更新日期:2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Well-preserved crania of notharctine adapiforms from the Eocene of North America provide the best direct evidence available for inferring neuroanatomy and encephalization in early euprimates (crown primates). Virtual endocasts of the notharctines Notharctus tenebrosus (n = 3) and Smilodectes gracilis (n = 4) from the ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.005
更新日期:2016-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Early hominid brain morphology is reassessed from endocasts of Australopithecus africanus and three species of Paranthropus, and new endocast reconstructions and cranial capacities are reported for four key specimens from the Paranthropus clade. The brain morphology of Australopithecus africanus appears more human lik...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/jhev.1999.0378
更新日期:2000-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::The early Miocene catarrhine fossil record of East Africa represents a diverse and extensive adaptive radiation. It is well accepted that these taxa encompass a dietary range similar to extant hominoids, in addition to some potentially novel dietary behaviour. There have been numerous attempts to infer diet for these ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2008.09.007
更新日期:2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The estimation of body size among the earliest members of the genus Homo (2.4-1.5Myr [millions of years ago]) is central to interpretations of their biology. It is widely accepted that Homo ergaster possessed increased body size compared with Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis, and that this may have been a factor invo...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 历史文章,杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.009
更新日期:2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract::It has long been thought that quadrupedal primates successfully occupy arboreal environments, in part, by relying on their grasping feet to control balance and propulsion, which frees their hands to test unstable branches and forage. If this interlimb decoupling of function is real, there should be discernible differe...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.09.004
更新日期:2015-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::The role of invertebrates in the evolution of human diet has been under-studied by comparison with vertebrates and plants. This persists despite substantial knowledge of the importance of the 'other faunivory', especially insect-eating, in the daily lives of non-human primates and traditional human societies, especial...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.016
更新日期:2014-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::It is often difficult to differentiate between archaeological bonebeds formed by one event such as a mass kill of a single herd, and those formed by multiple events that occurred over a longer period of time. The application of high temporal resolution studies such as intra-tooth isotopic profiles on archaeological ma...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2015.02.012
更新日期:2015-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Primate species typically differ from other mammals in having bony canals that enclose the branches of the internal carotid artery (ICA) as they pass through the middle ear. The presence and relative size of these canals varies among major primate clades. As a result, differences in the anatomy of the canals for the p...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.06.002
更新日期:2016-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Middle Palaeolithic site of Payre in southeastern France yields abundant archaeological material associated with fossil hominid remains. With its long sequence of Middle Pleistocene deposits, Payre is a key site to study the Middle Palaeolithic chronology of this region. This study is the first to investigate carb...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.06.013
更新日期:2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Primates are highly social animals. As such, they utilize a large repertoire of social skills to manage their complex and dynamic social environments. In order to acquire complex social skills, primates require an extended learning period. Here 1 perform a comparative analysis using independent contrasts to show that ...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1006/jhev.1997.0140
更新日期:1997-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::The Aurignacian (ca. 43-35 ka) of southwestern Germany is well known for yielding some of the oldest artifacts related to symbolic behaviors, including examples of figurative art, musical instruments, and personal ornaments. Another aspect of these behaviors is the presence of numerous pieces of iron oxide (ocher); ho...
journal_title:Journal of human evolution
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102900
更新日期:2021-01-01 00:00:00