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COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL
Volume 3, Issue 8, Pages 705-712Publisher
EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.crpv.2004.06.004
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Southeast Asia; fossil Homo sapiens; Upper Pleistocene; early settlements; dating; U series
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Among the poor fossil record of Southeast Asian Upper Pleistocene Homo sapiens, the Tabon human remains [12] are frequently cited in the literature despite very scarce published palaeoanthropological data. A recent Filipino-French joint work confirmed the significance of the discoveries made in the 1960s: a frontal bone and two mandibular fragments that have been recently described and dated [9]. Simultaneously, the archaeological potential of the Tabon site has been re-assessed and fieldwork organized by the National Museum of the Philippines yielded another eleven human remains. Palacoanthropological description and new dating of the human fossils from Tabon cave are proposed and discussed. Some of the new dates obtained confirm the ca. 16 500 BP age of the frontal bone [9], but older ages have been obtained for other human fossils. The palaeoanthropological evidence suggests that all remains pertain to modem Homo sapiens. However, their high morphological variability is discussed in the frame of early Homo sapiens settlements in insular Southeast Asia. (C) 2004 Academie des sciences. Published by Elsevier SAS. All rights reserved.
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