Journal
QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
Volume 354, Issue -, Pages 169-183Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.06.051
Keywords
China; Late Pleistocene; Modern; Homo sapiens; Teeth; Geometric morphometrics
Funding
- Wenner-Gren Foundation (ICRG) [82]
- National Geographic Society [8372-07]
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We present two previously unreported hominin permanent teeth [one right upper second molar (M2), one left lower second molar (m2)] from Lunadong (dong = cave), Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. The teeth are important because: 1) they were found in situ; 2) at least one (M2) can be confidently assigned to modern Homo sapiens, while the other (m2) is likely modern H. sapiens; and 3) the teeth can be securely dated between 126.9 +/- 1.5 ka and 70.2 +/- 1.4 ka, based on multiple MC-ICP-MS uranium-series dates of associated flowstones in clear stratigraphic context. The Lunadong modern H. sapiens teeth contribute to growing evidence (e.g., Callao Cave, Huanglongdong, Zhirendong) that modern and/or transitional humans were likely in eastern Asia between the crucial 120-50 ka time span, a period that some researchers have suggested no hominins were present in the region. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
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