The earliest evidence of hominid settlement in China: Combined electron spin resonance and uranium series (ESR/U-series) dating of mammalian fossil teeth from Longgupo cave

Quaternary International

Volumn 434, Issue , 2017, Pages 75-83

  Han, Fei ^a   Bahain, Jean Jacques ^b   Deng, Chenglong ^c   Boëda, Éric ^d,e,f   Hou, Yamei ^e   Wei, Guangbiao ^f   Huang, Wanbo ^e,f   Garcia, Tristan ^g   Shao, Qingfeng ^h   He, Cunding ^f   Falguères, Christophe ^b   Voinchet, Pierre ^b   Yin, Gongming ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^e INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^f China Three Gorges Museum   (China)

^g LABORATOIRE NATIONAL HENRI BECQUEREL   (France)

^h NANJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Early Pleistocene; ESR U series method; Fossil teeth; Hominid; Longgupo site

Indexed keywords

ARTIFACT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; FOSSIL RECORD; GEOCHRONOLOGY; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; MAMMAL; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH; URANIUM SERIES DATING;

CHINA; CHONGQING;

HOMINIDAE; MAMMALIA;

EID: 84925274522     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.02.025     Document Type: Article

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