Advanced maritime adaptation in the western Pacific coastal region extends back to 35,000-30,000 years before present

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 113, Issue 40, 2016, Pages 11184-11189

  Fujitaa, Masaki ^a   Yamasaki, Shinji ^a   Katagiri, Chiaki ^a   Oshiro, Itsuro ^b   Sano, Katsuhiro ^c   Kurozumi, Taiji ^d   Sugawara, Hiroshi ^e   Kunikita, Dai ^c   Matsuzaki, Hiroyuki ^c   Kano, Akihiro ^f   Okumura, Tomoyo ^f,g   Sone, Tomomi ^f   Fujita, Hikaru ^f   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^h   Naruse, Toru ⁱ   Kondo, Megumi ^j   Matsu'ura, Shuji ^j   Suwa, Gen ^c   Kaifu, Yousuke ^k  

^a Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum   (Japan)

^b Okinawa Ishi No Kai   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^d NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM AND INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^e Board of Education   (Japan)

^f KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^h SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^j OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

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Author keywords

Early modern humans; Homo sapiens; Late Paleolithic; Late Pleistocene; Maritime adaptation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL SHELL; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CAVE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASHORE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BRACHYURA; ECOSYSTEM; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; SNAIL; TIME FACTOR;

CARBON;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARTIFACTS; BRACHYURA; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; CAVES; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PACIFIC OCEAN; SEASONS; SNAILS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84989819110     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1607857113     Document Type: Article

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