Dental remains from Longtanshan cave 1 (Yunnan, China), and the initial presence of anatomically modern humans in East Asia

Quaternary International

Volumn 400, Issue , 2016, Pages 180-186

  Curnoe, Darren ^a   Ji, Xueping ^b   Shaojin, Hu ^c   Taçon, Paul S C ^d   Li, Yanmei ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology   (China)

^c Kunming Museum   (China)

^d GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Chenggong Institute of Cultural Relics   (China)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; China; Dentition; Late Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; DENTITION; HOMINID; MARINE ISOTOPE STAGE; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOOTH;

CHINA; KUNMING; YUNNAN;

EID: 84933557869     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.057     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Bae C.J., Wang W., Zhao J., Huang S., Tian F., Shen G. Modern human teeth from Late Pleistocene Luna cave (Guangxi, China). Quaternary International 2014, 354:169-183.
2. Bailey S.E., Hublin J.J. Dental remains from the Grotte du Renne at Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Journal of Human Evolution 2006, 50:485-508.
3. Bailey S., Liu W. A comparative dental metrical and morphological analysis of a Middle Pleistocene hominin maxilla from Chaoxian (Chaohu), China. Quaternary International 2010, 211:14-23.
4. Boivin N., Fuller D.Q., Dennell R., Allaby R., Petraglia M.D. Human dispersal across diverse environments of Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. Quaternary International 2013, 300:32-47.
5. Brown P. Coobool Creek 1989, Department of Prehistory, Research School of Pacific Studies, The Australian National University, Canberra: Terra Australis 13.
6. Bulbeck D. The Late Glacial Maximum human burial from Liang Lemdubu in northern Sahulland. The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia, Terra Australis 22 2005, 255-294. Pandanus Press, Canberra. S. O'Connor, M. Spriggs, P. Veth (Eds.).
7. Bulbeck D., O'Connor S. The Watinglo mandible: a second terminal Pleistocene Homo sapiens fossil from tropical Sahul with a test on existing models for the human settlement of the region. Homo-Journal of Comparative Human Biology 2011, 62:1-29.
8. Curnoe D., Ji X., Herries A.I.R., Kanning B., Taçon P.S.C., Zhende B., Fink D., Yunsheng Z., Hellstrom J., Yun L., Cassis G., Su B., Wroe S., Shi H., Parr W.C.H., Shengmin H., Rogers N. Human remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition of Southwest China suggest a complex evolutionary history for East Asians. PLoS ONE 2012, 7:e31918.
9. Demeter F., Shackelford L.L., Bacon A.M., Duringere P., Westaway K., Sayavongkhamdy T., Braga J., Sichanthongtip P., Khamdalavongg P., Poncheh J.-L., Wangi H., Lundstromj C., Patole-Edoumbak E., Karpoff A.M. Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2012, 109:14375-14380.
10. de Lumley M.A., Giacobini G. Les néandertaliens de la Caverna delle Fate (Finale Ligure, Italie). II-Les dents. L'anthropologie 2013, 1173:305-344.
11. Dempsey P.J., Townsend G.C. Genetic and environmental contributions to variation in human tooth size. Heredity 2001, 86:685-693.
12. Dennell R. Early Homo sapiens in China. Nature 2010, 468:512-513.
13. Dennell R., Petraglia M.D. The dispersal of Homo sapiens across southern Asia: how early, how often, how complex?. Quaternary Science Reviews 2012, 47:15-22.
14. Freedman L., Lofgren M. Human skeletal remains from Cossack, Western Australia. Journal of Human Evolution 1979, 8:283-299.
15. Freedman L., Lofgren M. Human skeletal remains from Lake Tandou, New South Wales. Archaeology in Oceania 1983, 18:98-105.
16. Gao B., Shen G.-J., Ji X., Cheng H. U-series dating of Longtanshan cave 1 in Chenggong, Yunnan province. Carsologica Sinica 2007, 24:321-325. (In Chinese).
17. Hillson S. Dental Anthropology 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Hillson S.W. Dental morphology, proportions, and attrition. Early Modern Human Evolution in Central Europe: the People of Dolni Vestonice and Pavlov 2006, 179-223. Oxford University Press, New York. E. Trinkaus, J.A. Svoboda (Eds.).
19. Ji X., Curnoe D., Bao Z., Herries A.I., Fink D., Zhu Y., Hellstrom J., Luo Y., Tacon P.S.C. Further geological and palaeoanthropological investigations at the Maludong hominin site, Yunnan Province, Southwest China. Chinese Science Bulletin 2013, 58:4472-4485.
20. Kaifu Y. Advanced dental reduction in Javanese Homo erectus. Anthropological Science 2006, 114:35-43.
21. Kaifu Y., Aziz F., Baba H. Hominid mandibular remains from Sangiran: 1952-1986. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2005, 128:497-519.
22. Kaifu Y., Baba H., Aziz F., Indriati E., Schrenk F., Jacob T. Taxonomic affinities and evolutionary history of the Early Pleistocene hominids of java: dentognathic evidence. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2005, 128:709-726.
23. Keates S.G. The chronology of Pleistocene modern humans in China, Korea, and Japan. Radiocarbon 2010, 52:428-465.
24. Kupczik K., Hublin J.-J. Mandibular molar root morphology in Neanderthals and Late Pleistocene and recent Homo sapiens. Journal of Human Evolution 2010, 59:525-541.
25. Liu W., Wu X., Pei S., Wu X., Norton C.J. Huanglong cave: a Late Pleistocene human fossil site in Hubei province, China. Quaternary International 2010, 211:29-41.
26. Liu W., Jin C.Z., Zhang Y.Q., Cai Y.J., Xing S., Wu X.-J., Cheng H., Edwards R.L., Pan W.-S., Qin D.G., An Z.-S., Trinkaus E., Wu X.-Z. Human remains from Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2010, 107:19201-19206.
27. Liu W., Schepartz L.A., Xing S., Miller-Antonio S., Wu X., Trinkaus E., Martinón-Torres M. Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China. Journal of Human Evolution 2013, 64:337-355.
28. Louys J., Curnoe D., Tong H. Characteristics of Pleistocene megafauna extinctions in Southeast Asia. Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology 2007, 243:152-173.
29. Macintosh N.W.G. The Cohuna cranium: teeth and palate. Oceania 1952, 23:95-105.
30. Macintosh N.W.G. The Talgai teeth and dental arch: remeasurement and reconstruction. Oceania 1952, 23:106-109.
31. Majid Z., Arif J., Samsuddin A.R., Nizam A., Lim A., Saidin M., Abdullah J., Chia S. GTK t: a skeleton from Gua Teluk Kelawar, Lenggong, Perak, dated 8.400+/-40 bp. The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons in Malaysia 2005, 345-361. Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. M. Zuraina (Ed.).
32. Martinón-Torres M., de Castro J.M.B., Gómez-Robles A., Prado-Simón L., Arsuaga J.L. Morphological description and comparison of the dental remains from Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos site (Spain). Journal of human Evolution 2012, 62:7-58.
33. Matsumura H., Pookajorn S. A morphometric analysis of the Late Pleistocene human skeleton from the Moh Khiew cave in Thailand. Homo: Journal of Comparative Human Biology 2005, 56:93-118.
34. Matsumura H., Zuraina M. Metric analyses of an Early Holocene human skeleton from Gua Gunung Runtuh, Malaysia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1999, 109:327-340.
35. Matsumura H., Cuong N.L., Thuy N.K., Anezaki T. Dental morphology of the early Hoabinian, the Neolithic Da But and the Metal age Dong Son civilized peoples in Vietnam. Zeischrift fur morphologie unde Anthropologie 2001, 83:59-73.
36. Matsumura H., Yoneda M., Dodo Y., Oxenham M.F., Cuong N.L., Thuy N.K., Long V.T., Yamagata M., Sawada J., Shinoda K., Takigawa W. Terminal Pleistocene human skeleton from Hang Cho Cave, northern Vietnam: implications for the biological affinities of Hoabinhian people. Anthropological Science 2008, 116:201-217.
37. Matsuno M., Kanazawa E., Nakayama M., Shizushima A., Kawasaki T., Yamashita M., Sakai K., Ji X., Dalie G. Tooth size in two Chinese Minorities, the Hani and Dai Tribes of Yunnan province. International Journal of Oral-Medical Sciences 2005, 4:21-27.
38. McCown T.D., Keith A. The Stone Age of Mount Carmel: the Fossil Human Remains from the Levalloiso-Mousterian 1939, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, Oxford.
39. Nelson C.T. The teeth of the Indians of Pecos Pueblo: part 1 size characteristics of the Pecos teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1938, 23:261-293.
40. Rasmussen M., Guo X., Wang Y., Lohmueller K.E., Rasmussen S., et al. An Aboriginal Australian genome reveals separate human dispersals into Asia. Science 2011, 334:94-98.
41. Schillaci M.A. Human cranial diversity and evidence for an ancient lineage of modern humans. Journal of Human Evolution 2008, 54:814-826.
42. Shang H., Tong H.W., Zhang S.Q., Chen F., Trinkaus E. An early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China. Proceeding of the National Academy of Sciences USA 2007, 104:6573-6578.
43. Smith B.H. Patterns of molar wear in hunters-gatherers and agriculturalists. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1984, 63:39-56.
44. Storm P. The evolutionary significance of the Wajak skulls. Scripta Geologica 1995, 110:1-247.
45. Storm P., Wood R., Stringer C., Bartsiokas A., de Vos J., Aubert M., Kinsley L., Grün R. U-series and radiocarbon analyses of human and faunal remains from Wajak, Indonesia. Journal of Human Evolution 2013, 64:356-365.
46. Suwa G., Fukase H., Kono R.T., Kubo D., Fujita M. Mandibular tooth root size in modern Japanese, prehistoric Jomon, and Late Pleistocene Minatogawa human fossils. Anthropological Science 2011, 119:159-171.
47. Suzuki H., Hanihara K. The Minatogawa Man: the Upper Pleistocene Man from the Island of Okinawa (No. 19) 1982, University of Tokyo Press.
48. Suzuki H., Takai F. The Amud Man and His Cave Site 1970, Academic Press of Japan.
49. Tobias P.V. The skulls, endocasts and teeth of Homo habilis. Olduvai Gorge 1991, 4. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
50. Thorne A.G. Kow Swamp and Lake Mungo 1975, (Ph.D. dissertation), The Australian National University.
51. Trinkaus E. Dental remains from the Shanidar adult Neanderthals. Journal of Human Evolution 1978, 7:369-382.
52. Turner C.G. Dental anthropological indications of agriculture among the Jomon people of central Japan: X. Peopling of the Pacific. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1979, 51:619-636.
53. Turvey S.T., Tong H., Stuart A.J., Lister A.M. Holocene survival of Late Pleistocene megafauna in China: a critical review of the evidence. Quaternary Science Reviews 2013, 76:156-166.
54. Vandermeersch B. Les Hommes Fossiles de Qafzeh (Israël) 1981, (In French), Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.
55. Weidenreich F. The Dentition of Sinanthropus pekinensis: a Comparative Odontography of the Hominids. The Geological Survey of China. Palaeontologica Sinica New Ser. D 1937, 1:1-180.
56. Westaway K.E., Morwood M.J., Roberts R.G., Rokus A.D., Zhao J.-X., Storm P., Aziz F., Van Den Bergh G., Hadi P., de Vos J. Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo. Journal of Human Evolution 2007, 53:709-717.
57. Wolpoff M.H. The Krapina dental remains. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 1979, 501:67-113.
58. Wu X., Poirier F.E. Human Evolution in China 1995, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
59. Xing S., Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Wu X., Liu W. Hominin teeth from the early Late Pleistocene site of Xujiayao, Northern China. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2014, 156:224-240.
60. Zaim Y., Ciochon R.L., Polanski J.M., Grine F.E., Bettis A., Rizal Y., Franciscus R.G., Larick R.R., Heizler M., Aswan, Eaves K.L., Marsh H.E. New 1.5 million-year-old Homo erectus maxilla from Sangiran (Central Java, Indonesia). Journal of Human Evolution 2011, 61:363-376.
61. Zhang X., Hu S., Zheng L. Human teeth from Late Pleistocene of Kunming, Yunnan province. Vertebrata PalAsiatica 1978, 16:288-289. (In Chinese).