Hominin teeth from the Middle Pleistocene site of Yiyuan, Eastern China

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 95, Issue , 2016, Pages 33-54

  Xing, Song ^a   Sun, Chengkai ^b,c   Martinón Torres, María ^d,e   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^d,f   Han, Fei ^g   Zhang, Yingqi ^a   Liu, Wu ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b Shandong Museum   (China)

^c NANJING INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND PALAEONTOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

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

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Dental materials; Homo erectus; Micro CT; Morphology

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOGRAPHY; FOSSIL; HOMINID; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TOMOGRAPHY; TOOTH;

CHINA;

HOMO ERECTUS; PONGO;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HOMINID; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; TOOTH;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CHINA; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; TOOTH;

EID: 84962775727     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.03.004     Document Type: Article

References (97)

1. Adams D.C., Rohlf F.J., Slice D.E. Geometric morphometrics: ten years of progress following the 'revolution'. Ital. J. Zool. 2004, 71:5-16.
2. Arambourg C., Biberson P. The fossil human remains from the Paleolithic site of Sidi Abderrahman (Morocco). Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1956, 14:467-489.
3. Arif J., Kaifu Y., Baba H., Suparka M.E., Zaim Y., Setoguchi T. Preliminary observation of a new cranium of Homo erectus (Tjg-1993.05) from Sangiran, Central Jawa. Anthropol. Sci. 2002, 110:165-177.
4. Bailey S.E. A closer look at Neanderthal postcanine dental morphology: The mandibular dentition. Anat. Rec. 2002, 269:148-156.
5. Bailey S.E. A morphometric analysis of maxillary molar crowns of Middle-Late Pleistocene hominins. J. Hum. Evol. 2004, 47:183-198.
6. Bailey S.E., Liu W. A comparative dental metrical and morphological analysis of a Middle Pleistocene hominin maxilla from Chaoxian (Chaohu), China. Quatern. Int. 2010, 211:14-23.
7. Bailey S.E., Skinner M.M., Hublin J.-J. What lies beneath? An evaluation of lower molar trigonid crest patterns based on both dentine and enamel expression. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2011, 145:505-518.
8. Bermúdez de Castro J. Dental remains from Atapuerca/Ibeas (Spain) II. Morphology. J. Hum. Evol. 1988, 17:279-304.
9. Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Arsuaga J.L., Carbonell E., Rosas A., Martínez I., Mosquera M. A hominid from the Lower Pleistocene of Atapuerca, Spain: Possible ancestor to Neandertals and modern humans. Science 1997, 276:1392-1395.
10. Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Rosas A., Nicolás M.E. Dental remains from Atapuerca-TD6 (Gran Dolina site, Burgos, Spain). J. Hum. Evol. 1999, 37:523-566.
11. Berryman H.E., Owsley D.W., Henderson A.M. Non-carious interproximal grooves in Arikara Indian dentitions. Am. J. Phys. Anthrop. 1979, 50:209-212.
12. Bookstein F.L. Morphometric Tools for Landmark Data 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
13. Bookstein F.L. Landmark methods for forms without landmarks: morphometrics of group differences in outline shape. Med. Image Anal. 1997, 1:225-243.
14. Bookstein F.L. Linear methods for nonlinear maps: Procrustes fits, thin plate splines, and the biometric analysis of shape variability. Brain Warping 1999, 157-181. Academic Press, San Diego. A.W. Toga (Ed.).
15. Carbonell E., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Arsuaga J.L., Allue E., Bastir M., Benito A., Cáceres I., Canals T., Díez J.C., van der Made J., Mosquera M., Ollé A., Pérez-González A., Rodríguez J., Rodríguez X.P., Rosas A., Rosell J., Sala R., Vallverdú J., Vergés J.M. An Early Pleistocene hominin mandible from Atapuerca-TD6, Spain. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2005, 102:5674-5678.
16. Ciochon R.L. Divorcing hominins from the Stegodon-Ailuropoda fauna: new views on the antiquity of hominins in Asia. Out of Africa I: The First Hominin Colonization of Eurasia. Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology 2010, 111-126. Springer, Dordrecht. J.G. Fleagle, J.J. Shea, F.E. Grine, A.L. Baden, R.E. Leakey (Eds.).
17. Dennell R. The Palaeolithic Settlement of Asia 2009, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
18. Dennell R.W. Hominins, deserts, and the colonisation and settlement of continental Asia. Quatern. Int. 2013, 300:13-21.
19. Gómez-Robles A., Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Margvelashvili A., Bastir M., Arsuaga J.L., Pérez-Pérez A., Estebaranz F., Martínez L.M. A geometric morphometric analysis of hominin upper first molar shape. J. Hum. Evol. 2007, 53:272-285.
20. Gómez-Robles A., Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Prado L., Sarmiento S., Arsuaga J.L. Geometric morphometric analysis of the crown morphology of the lower first premolar of hominins, with special attention to Pleistocene Homo. J. Hum. Evol. 2008, 55:627-638.
21. Gómez-Robles A., Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Prado-Simón L., Arsuaga J.L. A geometric morphometric analysis of hominin upper premolars. Shape variation and morphological integration. J. Hum. Evol. 2011, 61:688-702.
22. Gabunia L., Vekua A., Lordkipanidze D., Swisher C.C., Ferring R., Justus A., Nioradze M., Tvalchrelidze M., Antón S.C., Bosinski G., Jöris O., Lumley M.-A., Majsuradze G., Mouskhelishvili A. Earliest Pleistocene hominid cranial remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, geological setting, and age. Science 2000, 288:1019-1025.
23. Grine F.E., Franzen J.L. Fossil hominid teeth from the Sangiran Dome (Java, Indonesia). Cour. ForschInst. Senckenberg 1994, 171:75-103.
24. Gunz P., Mitteroecker P. Semilandmarks: a method for quantifying curves and surfaces. Hystrix 2013, 24:103-109.
25. Han F., Sun C., Bahain J.-J., Zhao J., Lin M., Xing S., Yin G. Coupled ESR and U-series dating of fossil teeth from Yiyuan hominin site, northern China. Quatern. Int. 2015, (in press). 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.05.052.
26. Hlusko L.J. The oldest hominid habit? Experimental evidence for toothpicking with grass stalks. Curr. Anthropol. 2003, 44:738-741.
27. Hlusko L.J. Protostylid variation in Australopithecus. J. Hum. Evol. 2004, 46:579-594.
28. Holden C. Man, the toothpick user. Science 2000, 288:607.
29. Irish J.D. Ancestral dental traits in recent sub-Saharan Africans and the origins of modern humans. J. Hum. Evol. 1998, 34:81-98.
30. Jacob T. Palaeoanthropological discoveries in Indonesia with special reference to the finds of the last two decades. J. Hum. Evol. 1973, 2:473-485.
31. Jin C., Qin D., Pan W., Tang Z., Liu J., Wang Y., Deng C., Zhang Y., Dong W., Tong H. A newly discovered Gigantopithecus fauna from Sanhe Cave, Chongzuo, Guangxi, South China. Chin. Sci. Bull. 2009, 54:788-797.
32. Johanson D.C., White T.D., Coppens Y. Dental remains from the Hadar formation, Ethiopia: 1974-1977 collections. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1982, 57:545-603.
33. Kaifu Y. Advanced dental reduction in Javanese Homo erectus. Anthropol. Sci. 2006, 114:35-43.
34. Kaifu Y., Aziz F., Baba H. Hominid mandibular remains from Sangiran: 1952-1986 collections. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2005, 128:497-519.
35. Kaifu Y., Zaim Y., Baba H., Kurniawan I., Kubo D., Rizal Y., Arif J., Aziz F. New reconstruction and morphological description of a Homo erectus cranium: Skull IX (Tjg-1993.05) from Sangiran, Central Java. J. Hum. Evol. 2011, 61:270-294.
36. Liu W., Schepartz L.A., Xing S., Miller-Antonio S., Wu X.J., Trinkaus E., Martinón-Torres M. Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China. J. Hum. Evol. 2013, 64:337-355.
37. Liu W., Martinón-Torres M., Cai Y., Xing S., Tong H., Pei S., Jan Sier M., Wu X., Edwards R.L., Cheng H., Li Y., Yang X., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Wu X. The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China. Nature 2015, 526:696-699.
38. Lozano M., Subirà M.E., Aparicio J., Lorenzo C., Gómez-Merino G. Toothpicking and periodontal disease in a Neanderthal specimen from Cova Foradà site (Valencia, Spain). PLoS ONE 2013, 8:e76852.
39. Lu Z., Huang W., Li P., Meng Z. Yiyuan fossil man. Acta Anthropol. Sinica 1989, 8:301-313.
40. Martínez de Pinillos M., Martinón-Torres M., Skinner M.M., Arsuaga J.L., Gracia-Téllez A., Martínez I., Martín-Francés L., Bermúdez de Castro J.M. Trigonid crests expression in Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos lower molars: Internal and external morphological expression and evolutionary inferences. C. R. Palevol 2014, 13:205-221.
41. Martínez de Pinillos M., Martinón-Torres M., Martín-Francés L., Arsuaga J.L., Bermúdez de Castro J.M. Comparative analysis of the trigonid crests patterns in Homo antecessor molars at the enamel and dentine surfaces. Quatern. Int. 2015, (in press). 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.08.050.
42. Martinón-Torres M. Evolución del aparato dental en homínidos: estudio de los dientes humanos del Pleistoceno de la Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos) 2006, Ph.D. Dissertation, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela.
43. Martinón-Torres M., Bastir M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Gómez A., Sarmiento S., Muela A., Arsuaga J.L. Hominin lower second premolar morphology: evolutionary inferences through geometric morphometric analysis. J. Hum. Evol. 2006, 50:523-533.
44. Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Gómez-Robles A., Arsuaga J.L., Carbonell E., Lordkipanidze D., Manzi G., Margvelashvili A. Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 2007, 104:13279-13282.
45. Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Gómez-Robles A., Margvelashvili A., Prado L., Lordkipanidze D., Vekua A. Dental remains from Dmanisi (Republic of Georgia): Morphological analysis and comparative study. J. Hum. Evol. 2008, 55:249-273.
46. Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., 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). J. Hum. Evol. 2012, 62:7-58.
47. Martinón-Torres M., Martínez de Pinillos M., Skinner M.M., Martín-Francés L., Gracia-Téllez A., Martínez I., Arsuaga J.L., Bermúdez de Castro J.M. Talonid crests expression at the enamel-dentine junction of hominin lower permanent and deciduous molars. C. R. Palevol 2014, 13:223-234.
48. Martinón-Torres M., Song X., Liu W., Bermúdez de Castro J.M. A "source and sink" model for East Asia? Preliminary approach through the dental evidence. C. R. Palevol 2016, (in press). 10.1016/j.crpv.2015.09.011.
49. Moggi-Cecchi J., Grine F.E., Tobias P.V. Early hominid dental remains from Members 4 and 5 of the Sterkfontein Formation (1966-1996 excavations): Catalogue, individual associations, morphological descriptions and initial metrical analysis. J. Hum. Evol. 2006, 50:239-328.
50. Molnar S. Human tooth wear, tooth function and cultural variability. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1971, 34:175-189.
51. Olejniczak A.J. Micro-computed tomography of primate molars 2006, Ph.D. Dissertation, Stony Brook University.
52. Olejniczak A.J., Smith T.M., Wei W., Potts R., Ciochon R., Kullmer O., Schrenk F., Hublin J.-J. Molar enamel thickness and dentine horn height in Gigantopithecus blacki. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2008, 135:85-91.
53. Ortiz A., Skinner M.M., Bailey S.E., Hublin J.-J. Carabelli's trait revisited: An examination of mesiolingual features at the enamel-dentine junction and enamel surface of Pan and Homo sapiens upper molars. J. Hum. Evol. 2012, 63:586-596.
54. Rink W.J., Wei W., Bekken D., Jones H.L. Geochronology of Ailuropoda-Stegodon fauna and Gigantopithecus in Guangxi Province, southern China. Quatern. Res. 2008, 69:377-387.
55. Rohlf F. TpsRelw. Ecology and Evolution, SUNY 1998, Stony Brook, New York. http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/.
56. Rohlf F.J. TpsDig2. Ecology and Evolution, SUNY 1998, Stony Brook, New York. http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/morph/.
57. Scott G.R., Turner C.G. The Anthropology of Modern Human Teeth: Dental Morphology and its Variation in Recent Human Populations 1997, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
58. Skinner M.M., Gunz P., Wood B.A., Hublin J.-J. Enamel-dentine junction (EDJ) morphology distinguishes the lower molars of Australopithecus africanus and Paranthropus robustus. J. Hum. Evol. 2008, 55:979-988.
59. Skinner M.M., Gunz P., Wood B.A., Boesch C., Hublin J.-J. Discrimination of extant Pan species and subspecies using the enamel-dentine junction morphology of lower molars. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2009, 140:234-243.
60. Skinner M.M., Evans A., Smith T.M., Jernvall J., Tafforeau P., Kupczik K., Olejniczak A.J., Rosas A., Radovčcic J., Thackeray J.F., Toussaint M., Hublin J.-J. Brief Communication: contributions of enamel-dentine junction shape and enamel deposition to primate molar crown complexity. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2010, 142:157-163.
61. Smith T.M., Olejniczak A.J., Martin L.B., Reid D.J. Variation in hominoid molar enamel thickness. J. Hum. Evol. 2005, 48:575-592.
62. Smith T.M., Olejniczak A.J., Kupczik K., Lazzari V., Vos J., Kullmer O., Schrenk F., Hublin J.-J., Jacob T., Tafforeau P. Taxonomic assessment of the Trinil molars using non-destructive 3D structural and developmental analysis. PaleoAnthropol. 2009, 117-129.
63. Smith T.M., Bacon A.M., Demeter F., Kullmer O., Nguyen K.T., Vos J., Wei W., Zermeno J.P., Zhao L.X. Dental tissue proportions in fossil orangutans from mainland Asia and Indonesia. Hum. Origins Res. 2011, 1:1-6.
64. Sun C., Zhou M., Xing S. Geometric and morphometric analysis of Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Yiyuan, Shandong Province. Acta Anthropol. Sinica 2011, 30:32-44.
65. Sun C., Xing S., Martín-Francés L., Bae C., Liu L., Wei G., Liu W. Interproximal grooves on the Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Yiyuan, Shandong Province: New evidence for tooth-picking behavior from eastern China. Quatern. Int. 2014, 354:162-168.
66. Suwa G.E.N., Asfaw B., Haile-Selassie Y., White T.I.M., Katoh S., Woldegabriel G., Hart W.K., Nakaya H., Beyene Y. Early Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Konso, southern Ethiopia. Anthropol. Sci. 2007, 115:133-151.
67. Tobias P.V. Olduvai Gorge, Volume 4: The Skulls, Endocasts and Teeth of Homo habilis 1991, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
68. Tobias P.V., Koenigswald G.H.R.V. A comparison between the Olduvai hominines and those of Java and some implications for hominid phylogeny. Curr. Anthropol. 1965, 6:427-431.
69. Turner C.G., Nichol C.R., Scott G.R. Scoring procedures for key morphological traits of the permanent dentition: the Arizona State University dental anthropology system. Advances in Dental Anthropology 1991, 13-31. Wiley-Liss, New York. M. Kelley, C. Larsen (Eds.).
70. Tyler D.E. Sangiran 5, ("Pithecanthropus dubius"), Homo erectus, "Meganthropus," or Pongo?. Hum. Evol. 2003, 18:229-242.
71. Tyler D.E. An examination of the taxonomic status of the fragmentary mandible Sangiran 5, (Pithecanthropus dubius), Homo erectus, "Meganthropus", or Pongo?. Quatern. Int. 2004, 117:125-130.
72. Ungar P.S., Grine F.E., Teaford M.F., Perez-Perez A. A review of interproximal wear grooves on fossil hominin teeth with new evidence from Olduvai Gorge. Archs. Oral Biol. 2001, 46:285-292.
73. Walker A., Leakey R.E. The Nariokotome Homo erectus Skeleton 1993, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
74. Wang C.-B., Zhao L.-X., Jin C.-Z., Wang Y., Qin D.-G., Pan W.-S. New discovery of Early Pleistocene orangutan fossils from Sanhe Cave in Chongzuo, Guangxi, southern China. Quatern. Int. 2014, 354:68-74.
75. Ward S.C., Johanson D.C., Coppens Y. Subocclusal morphology and alveolar process relationships of hominid gnathic elements from the Hadar formation: 1974-1977 collections. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1982, 57:605-630.
76. Weidenreich F. The dentition of Sinanthropus pekinensis: a comparative odontography of the hominids. Palaeont. Sinica D 1937, 1:1-180.
77. White T.D. Additional fossil hominids from Laetoli, Tanzania: 1976-1979 specimens. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 1980, 53:487-504.
78. Wolpoff M.H. Metric Trends in Hominid Dental Evolution 1971, Case Western Reserve University Press, Cleveland.
79. Woo J., Chia L. New discoveries of Sinanthropus pekinensis in Choukoutien. Acta Palaeontol. Sinica 1954, 2:267-288.
80. Wood B. Hominid Cranial Remains. Koobi Fora Research Project 1991, Vol. 4. Clarendon Press, Oxford.
81. Wood B.A., Abbott S.A., Graham S.H. Analysis of the dental morphology of Plio-Pleistocene hominids: II. Mandibular molars-study of cusp areas, fissure pattern and cross sectional shape of the crown. J. Anat. 1983, 137:287-314.
82. Wu R., Wu X., Huang W., Qi G. Paleolithic Sites in China 1999, Shanghai Scientific and Technological Education Publishing House, Shanghai.
83. Wu X., Poirier F. Human Evolution in China. A Morphometric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites 1995, Oxford University Press, New York.
84. Xing S. Morphological variation of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus teeth 2012, Ph.D. Dissertation, Chinese Academy of Science.
85. Xing S., Martinón-Torres M., Bermúdez de Castro J.M., Zhang Y., Fan X., Zheng L., Huang W., Liu W. Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Longtan Cave, Hexian, China. PLoS ONE 2014, 9:e114265.
86. 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. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2015, 156:224-240.
87. Xu C., Zhang Y., Chen C., Fang D. Human occipital bone and mammalian fossils from Chaoxian, Anhui. Acta Anthropol. Sinica 1984, 3:202-209.
88. Zaim Y., Ciochon R.L., Polanski J.M., Grine F.E., Bettis E.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). J. Hum. Evol. 2011, 61:363-376.
89. Zanolli C. Additional evidence for morpho-dimensional tooth crown variation in a new Indonesian H. erectus sample from the Sangiran Dome (Central Java). PLoS ONE 2013, 8:e67233.
90. Zanolli C. Brief Communication: Molar crown inner structural organization in Javanese Homo erectus. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2015, 156:148-157.
91. Zanolli C., Bayle P., Macchiarelli R. Tissue proportions and enamel thickness distribution in the early Middle Pleistocene human deciduous molars from Tighenif, Algeria. C. R. Palevol 2010, 9:341-348.
92. Zanolli C., Bondioli L., Mancini L., Mazurier A., Widianto H., Macchiarelli R. Brief Communication: Two human fossil deciduous molars from the Sangiran Dome (Java, Indonesia): Outer and inner morphology. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2012, 147:472-481.
93. Zanolli C., Bondioli L., Coppa A., Dean C.M., Bayle P., Candilio F., Capuani S., Dreossi D., Fiore I., Frayer D.W., Libsekal Y., Mancini L., Rook L., Medin Tekle T., Tuniz C., Macchiarelli R. The late Early Pleistocene human dental remains from Uadi Aalad and Mulhuli-Amo (Buia), Eritrean Danakil: Macromorphology and microstructure. J. Hum. Evol. 2014, 74:96-113.
94. Zanolli C., Grine F.E., Kullmer O., Schrenk F., Macchiarelli R. The early Pleistocene deciduous hominid molar FS-72 from the Sangiran Dome of Java, Indonesia: A taxonomic reappraisal based on its comparative endostructural characterization. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 2015, 157:666-674.
95. Zelditch M.L., Swiderski D.L., Sheets H.D., Fink W.L. Geometric Morphometrics for Biologists: A Primer 2004, Elsevier Academic Press, San Diego.
96. Zhang Y., Liu W. Dental morphological distinctions between Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens in China. Acta Anthropol. Sinica 2002, 21:87-101.
97. Zhao L., Wang C., Jin C., Qin D., Pan W. Fossil orangutan-like hominoid teeth from Late Pleistocene human site of Mulanshan cave in Chongzuo of Guangxi and implications on taxonomy and evolution of orangutan. Chin. Sci. Bull. 2009, 54:3924-3930.