Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China | |
Liu, Wu1; Wu, Xianzhu2,3; Pei, Shuwen1; Wu, Xiujie1; Norton, Christopher J.4; liuwu@ivpp.ac.cn | |
刊名 | QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL |
2010 | |
卷号 | 211期号:1-2页码:29-41 |
关键词 | Modern Human Origins Dental Remains Middle Pleistocene Hominid Site Fire Teeth Xujiayao Ethiopia Spain Tooth |
ISSN号 | 1040-6182 |
文献子类 | Article |
英文摘要 | This contribution discusses recent paleoanthropological findings from Huanglong Cave, a Late Pleistocene human fossil site from Yunxi County, Hubei Province, China. Three excavations in the Huanglong Cave from 2004 to 2006 yielded seven human teeth, some stone and bone tools, possible burnt sediment and other evidence possibly related to hominin activities. Based on the presence of extinct faunas (20% of total taxa identified), the deposits dated to the Late Pleistocene. Electron spin resonance (ESR) and uranium-series (U-series) dating analyses on associated teeth and speleothems have resulted in divergent chronometric ages (ESR: 44-34 ka; U-series: 103-79 ka). Analysis indicates: (1) most of the morphological and metric features of the human teeth from Huanglong Cave fall within the range of variation of modern Chinese, but a few characters may still link them to more archaic hominins: (2) some activity-induced abrasion and other tooth use-marks were identified, including pronounced tooth chipping and interproximal grooves on the anterior teeth; (3) the sample of blackened deposit has a high carbon content (over 70%), experienced high temperatures, and likely was of cultural origin and not natural; (4) the mammal fossils represent the "Ailuropoda-Stegodon" faunal unit which lived in southern China throughout the Pleistocene. Synthesizing all of these findings, especially the human teeth that display modern human characteristics, Huanglong Cave will offer some new insights into various issues currently being debated in Late Pleistocene human evolutionary research. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. |
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WOS关键词 | MODERN HUMAN ORIGINS ; DENTAL REMAINS ; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; HOMINID SITE ; FIRE ; TEETH ; XUJIAYAO ; ETHIOPIA ; SPAIN ; TOOTH |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000274277100005 |
公开日期 | 2013-11-27 |
内容类型 | 期刊论文 |
源URL | [http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4668] |
专题 | 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1 古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_古人类及旧石器研究室 |
通讯作者 | liuwu@ivpp.ac.cn |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Inst Archeol & Cultural Rel Hubei Prov, Wuhan 430077, Peoples R China 3.Chongqing Normal Univ, Chongqing 400047, Peoples R China 4.Univ Hawaii, Dept Anthropol, Manoa, HI USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Liu, Wu,Wu, Xianzhu,Pei, Shuwen,et al. Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2010,211(1-2):29-41. |
APA | Liu, Wu,Wu, Xianzhu,Pei, Shuwen,Wu, Xiujie,Norton, Christopher J.,&liuwu@ivpp.ac.cn.(2010).Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,211(1-2),29-41. |
MLA | Liu, Wu,et al."Huanglong Cave: A Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei Province, China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 211.1-2(2010):29-41. |
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