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JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Volume 53, Issue 1, Pages 1-5Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2006.10.006
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hominid fossil femur; AMS radiocarbon dating
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Human remains from the Xarusgol Valley, Ordos Plateau, northwestern China, have been considered to date to the Late Pleistocene. In order to ascertain their true age, direct AMS C-14 dating of a femur collected in the early 1920s was conducted. The results demonstrate that the femur is very Young, with one sample of 'post-bomb' age and the other sample c. 200 years old. This first direct dating of a Chinese fossil hominid underscores the need to apply the same methodology to other Chinese modern human fossils currently believed to be of Pleistocene age. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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