Late Pleistocene modern human mandibles from the Minatogawa Fissure site, Okinawa, Japan: morphological affinities and implications for modern human dispersals in East Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 119 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
YOUSUKE KAIFU ◽  
MASAKI FUJITA ◽  
REIKO T. KONO ◽  
HISAO BABA
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human

scholarly journals Initial Upper Palaeolithic humans in Europe had recent Neanderthal ancestry

Nature ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 592 (7853) ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mateja Hajdinjak ◽  
Fabrizio Mafessoni ◽  
Laurits Skov ◽  
Benjamin Vernot ◽  
Alexander Hübner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Family History ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Migration ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Genome Wide ◽  
Genome Wide Data

AbstractModern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1–5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.

scholarly journals Functional relationship between dental macrowear and diet in Late Pleistocene and recent modern human populations

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Fiorenza ◽  
Stefano Benazzi ◽  
Gregorio Oxilia ◽  
Ottmar Kullmer
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Populations

A Late Pleistocene modern human fossil from the Gunang Cave, Danyang county in Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 519 ◽  
pp. 82-91
Author(s):  
S.-J Park ◽  
J.-Y Kim ◽  
Y.-J Lee ◽  
J.–Y Woo
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Human Fossil

scholarly journals A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt

Antiquity ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 72 (277) ◽  
pp. 475-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. M. Vermeersch ◽  
E. Paulissen ◽  
P. Van Peer ◽  
S. Stokes ◽  
C. Charlier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Nile Valley ◽  
Middle Palaeolithic ◽  
African Origin ◽  
Modern Humans ◽  
Origin Of Modern Humans ◽  
Clear Relation ◽  
Aeolian Sands

Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age between 49,800 and 80,400 years ago, with a mean age of 55,000.

scholarly journals Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation

2019 ◽  
Vol 116 (20) ◽  
pp. 9820-9824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiu-Jie Wu ◽  
Shu-Wen Pei ◽  
Yan-Jun Cai ◽  
Hao-Wen Tong ◽  
Qiang Li ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Middle Pleistocene ◽  
Third Molars ◽  
Human Morphology ◽  
Nasal Floor ◽  
Medial Pterygoid ◽  
Early Late

Middle to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia has remained controversial regarding the extent of morphological continuity through archaic humans and to modern humans. Newly found ∼300,000-y-old human remains from Hualongdong (HLD), China, including a largely complete skull (HLD 6), share East Asian Middle Pleistocene (MPl) human traits of a low vault with a frontal keel (but no parietal sagittal keel or angular torus), a low and wide nasal aperture, a pronounced supraorbital torus (especially medially), a nonlevel nasal floor, and small or absent third molars. It lacks a malar incisure but has a large superior medial pterygoid tubercle. HLD 6 also exhibits a relatively flat superior face, a more vertical mandibular symphysis, a pronounced mental trigone, and simple occlusal morphology, foreshadowing modern human morphology. The HLD human fossils thus variably resemble other later MPl East Asian remains, but add to the overall variation in the sample. Their configurations, with those of other Middle and early Late Pleistocene East Asian remains, support archaic human regional continuity and provide a background to the subsequent archaic-to-modern human transition in the region.

scholarly journals First systematic assessment of dental growth and development in an archaic hominin (genus,Homo) from East Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. eaau0930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Song Xing ◽  
Paul Tafforeau ◽  
Mackie O’Hara ◽  
Mario Modesto-Mata ◽  
Laura Martín-Francés ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Northern China ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Dental Development ◽  
Systematic Assessment ◽  
Genus Homo ◽  
Human Morphology ◽  
Crown Formation ◽  
Dental Traits

Several human dental traits typical of modern humans appear to be associated with the prolonged period of development that is a key human attribute. Understanding when, and in which early hominins, these dental traits first appeared is thus of strong interest. Using x-ray multiresolution synchrotron phase-contrast microtomography, we quantify dental growth and development in an archaicHomojuvenile from the Xujiayao site in northern China dating to 161,000–224,000 years or 104,000–125,000 years before present. Despite the archaic morphology of Xujiayao hominins, most aspects of dental development of this juvenile fall within modern human ranges (e.g., prolonged crown formation time and delayed first molar eruption). For its estimated age-at-death (6.5 years), its state of dental development is comparable to that of equivalently aged modern children. These findings suggest that several facets of modern human dental growth and development evolved in East Asia before the appearance of fully modern human morphology.

A buried palaeosol and late Pleistocene unconformity in coastal deposits of the eastern Yellow Sea, East Asia

2004 ◽  
Vol 121 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.I. Lim ◽  
H.S. Jung ◽  
B.O. Kim ◽  
J.Y. Choi ◽  
H.N. Kim
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Yellow Sea ◽  
Coastal Deposits

Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals

2012 ◽  
Vol 274 ◽  
pp. 38-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven A. Brandt ◽  
Erich C. Fisher ◽  
Elisabeth A. Hildebrand ◽  
Ralf Vogelsang ◽  
Stanley H. Ambrose ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Late Pleistocene ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
Ethiopian Highlands ◽  
Mis 3
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