Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 337-355

  Liu, Wu ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^a,b   Xing, Song ^a,c   Miller Antonio, Sari ^d   Wu, Xiujie ^a   Trinkaus, Erik ^e   Martinón Torres, María ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; China; Early modern humans; Panxian Dadong; Teeth

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

CHINA; EUROPE; GUIZHOU; PANXIAN DADONG; WEST ASIA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84875876891     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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