The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

doi:10.1038/nature15696

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	The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China
	Liu, Wu ; Martinon-Torres, Maria ; Cai, Yan-jun ; Xing, Song ; Tong, Hao-wen ; Pei, Shu-wen ; Sier, Mark Jan ; Wu, Xiao-hong ; Edwards, R. Lawrence ; Cheng, Hai ; Li, Yi-yuan ; Yang, Xiong-xin ; Bermudez de Castro, Jose Maria ; Wu, Xiu-jie
刊名	NATURE
	2015
关键词	MORPHOMETRIC-ANALYSIS HOMININ TEETH PLEISTOCENE AFRICA HOMO REMAINS ASIA DISPERSALS INDONESIA HISTORY
DOI	10.1038/nature15696
英文摘要	The hominin record from southern Asia for the early Late Pleistocene epoch is scarce. Well-dated and well-preserved fossils older than similar to 45,000 years that can be unequivocally attributed to Homo sapiens are lacking(1-4). Here we present evidence from the newly excavated Fuyan Cave in Damian (southern China). This site has provided 47 human teeth dated to more than 80,000 years old, and with an inferred maximum age of 120,000 years. The morphological and metric assessment of this sample supports its unequivocal assignment to H. sapiens. The Daoxian sample is more derived than any other anatomically modern humans, resembling middle-to-late Late Pleistocene specimens and even contemporary humans. Our study shows that fully modern morphologies were present in southern China 30,000-70,000 years earlier than in the Levant and Europe(5-7). Our data fill a chronological and geographical gap that is relevant for understanding when H. sapiens first appeared in southern Asia. The Damian teeth also support the hypothesis that during the same period, southern China was inhabited by more derived populations than central and northern China. This evidence is important for the study of dispersal routes of modern humans.. Finally, our results are relevant to exploring the reasons for the relatively late entry of H. sapiens into Europe. Some studies have investigated how the competition with H. sapiens may have caused Neanderthals' extinction. (see ref. 8 and references therein). Notably, although fully modern humans were already present in southern China at least as early as 80,000 years ago, there is no evidence that they entered Europe before similar to 45,000 years ago. This could indicate that H. neanderthalensis was indeed an additional ecological barrier for modern humans, who could only enter Europe when the demise of Neanderthals had already started.; Chinese Academy of Sciences [KZZD-EW-03, XDA05130101, GJHZ201314]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [41272034, 41302016, 41271229]; Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research [NWO-ALW 823.01.003]; Direccion General de Investigacion of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [CGL2012-38434-C03-02]; Direccion General de Investigacion of the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Accion Integrada Espana Francia) [HF2007-0115]; Consejeria de Educacion de Junta de Castilla y Leon [CEN074A12-2]; Leakey Foundation; A&HCI; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; ARTICLE; liuwu@ivpp.ac.cn; maria.martinon-torres@ucl.ac.uk; wuxiujie@ivpp.ac.cn; 7575; 696-699; 526
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/415549]
专题	考古文博学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Wu,Martinon-Torres, Maria,Cai, Yan-jun,et al. The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China[J]. NATURE,2015.
APA	Liu, Wu.,Martinon-Torres, Maria.,Cai, Yan-jun.,Xing, Song.,Tong, Hao-wen.,...&Wu, Xiu-jie.(2015).The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China.NATURE.
MLA	Liu, Wu,et al."The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China".NATURE (2015).