Wu, X-J;
Pei, S-W;
Cai, Y-J;
Tong, H-W;
Li, Q;
Dong, Z;
Sheng, J-C;
... Liu, W; + view all
(2019)
Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
, 116
(20)
pp. 9820-9824.
10.1073/pnas.1902396116.
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Abstract
Middle to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia has remained controversial regarding the extent of morphological continuity through archaic humans and to modern humans. Newly found ∼300,000-y-old human remains from Hualongdong (HLD), China, including a largely complete skull (HLD 6), share East Asian Middle Pleistocene (MPl) human traits of a low vault with a frontal keel (but no parietal sagittal keel or angular torus), a low and wide nasal aperture, a pronounced supraorbital torus (especially medially), a nonlevel nasal floor, and small or absent third molars. It lacks a malar incisure but has a large superior medial pterygoid tubercle. HLD 6 also exhibits a relatively flat superior face, a more vertical mandibular symphysis, a pronounced mental trigone, and simple occlusal morphology, foreshadowing modern human morphology. The HLD human fossils thus variably resemble other later MPl East Asian remains, but add to the overall variation in the sample. Their configurations, with those of other Middle and early Late Pleistocene East Asian remains, support archaic human regional continuity and provide a background to the subsequent archaic-to-modern human transition in the region.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1073/pnas.1902396116 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1902396116 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | human paleontology, cranium, mandible, teeth, East Asia |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077973 |
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