Compound-specific radiocarbon dating and mitochondrial DNA analysis of the Pleistocene hominin from Salkhit Mongolia

Nature Communications

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2019, Pages

  Devièse, Thibaut ^a   Massilani, Diyendo ^b   Yi, Seonbok ^c   Comeskey, Daniel ^a   Nagel, Sarah ^b   Nickel, Birgit ^b   Ribechini, Erika ^d   Lee, Jungeun ^c   Tseveendorj, Damdinsuren ^e   Gunchinsuren, Byambaa ^e   Meyer, Matthias ^b   Pääbo, Svante ^b   Higham, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^c Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY AND CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Mongolia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCIENT DNA; CARBON 14; DNA FRAGMENT; HYDROXYPROLINE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; CARBON;

FOSSIL RECORD; HOMINID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOCARBON DATING; RECONSTRUCTION;

ARTICLE; CALVARIA; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MONGOLIA; PALEOLITHIC; PLEISTOCENE; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HOMINID; PALEONTOLOGY;

EURASIA; MONGOLIA; SALKHIT; SELENGE;

SCUTELLARIA;

ANIMALS; CARBON RADIOISOTOPES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MONGOLIA; PALEONTOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SKULL;

EID: 85060861342     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-018-08018-8     Document Type: Article

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