An updated age for the Xujiayao hominin from the Nihewan Basin, North China: Implications for Middle Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 106, Issue , 2017, Pages 54-65

  Ao, Hong ^a,b   Liu, Chun Ru ^c   Roberts, Andrew P ^d   Zhang, Peng ^a   Xu, Xinwen ^e  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

^b International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Archaic Homo sapiens; China; Denisovan; Electron spin resonance dating; Magnestostratigraphy; Neanderthal

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTIFACT; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DATING; HOMINID; HUMAN EVOLUTION; LITHIC FRAGMENT; MAGNETOSTRATIGRAPHY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE;

CHINA; EURASIA; HEBEI; NIHEWAN BASIN;

HOMO SAPIENS; MAMMALIA;

ANIMAL; CHINA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MOLAR TOOTH; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; CHINA; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MOLAR; NEANDERTHALS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 85015271318     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2017.01.014     Document Type: Article

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