Age of Maba hominin site in southern China: Evidence from U-series dating of Southern Branch Cave

Quaternary Geochronology

Volumn 23, Issue , 2014, Pages 56-62

  Shen, Guanjun ^a,b   Tu, Hua ^b   Xiao, Dongfang ^c   Qiu, Licheng ^d   Feng, Yue xing ^e   Zhao, Jian xin ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Site Museum of Maba Hominin   (China)

^d Guangzhou Municipal Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics   (China)

^e UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; Maba hominin; Middle Pleistocene; Southern China; Speleothem calcite; U series dating

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; BIOSTRATIGRAPHY; DEPOSITION; FOSSIL; PLEISTOCENE; SPELEOTHEM; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA;

HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 84904135751     PISSN: 18711014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quageo.2014.06.004     Document Type: Article

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