Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians

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	Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians
	Curnoe D[]1; Ji XP[]2,3; Herries AIR 4; Bai KN 5; Tacon PSC 6; Zhende B 7; Fink D 8; Zhu YS 5; Hellstrom J 9; Luo Y 7
刊名	PLOS ONE
	2012
卷号	7 期号:3 页码:e31918
通讯作者	d.curnoe@unsw.edu.au ; jxping@public.km.yn.cn
英文摘要	Background: Later Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a scarcity of well described, reliably classified and accurately dated fossils. Southwest China has been identified from genetic research as a hotspot of human diversity, containing ancient mtDNA and Y-DNA lineages, and has yielded a number of human remains thought to derive from Pleistocene deposits. We have prepared, reconstructed, described and dated a new partial skull from a consolidated sediment block collected in 1979 from the site of Longlin Cave (Guangxi Province). We also undertook new excavations at Maludong (Yunnan Province) to clarify the stratigraphy and dating of a large sample of mostly undescribed human remains from the site. Methodology/Principal Findings: We undertook a detailed comparison of cranial, including a virtual endocast for the Maludong calotte, mandibular and dental remains from these two localities. Both samples probably derive from the same population, exhibiting an unusual mixture of modern human traits, characters probably plesiomorphic for later Homo, and some unusual features. We dated charcoal with AMS radiocarbon dating and speleothem with the Uranium-series technique and the results show both samples to be from the Pleistocene-Holocene transition: similar to 14.3-11.5 ka. Conclusions/Significance: Our analysis suggests two plausible explanations for the morphology sampled at Longlin Cave and Maludong. First, it may represent a late-surviving archaic population, perhaps paralleling the situation seen in North Africa as indicated by remains from Dar-es-Soltane and Temara, and maybe also in southern China at Zhirendong. Alternatively, East Asia may have been colonised during multiple waves during the Pleistocene, with the Longlin-Maludong morphology possibly reflecting deep population substructure in Africa prior to modern humans dispersing into Eurasia.
收录类别	SCI
资助信息	This research was funded by the Australian Research Council.
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000303198600011
公开日期	2012-05-18
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://159.226.149.42:8088/handle/152453/6948]
专题	昆明动物研究所_比较基因组学昆明动物研究所_遗传资源与进化国家重点实验室
作者单位	1.School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 2.Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, Kunming, Yunnan, China 3.Archeology Research Center, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China 4.Archaeomagnetism Laboratory, Archaeology Program, School of Historical and European Studies, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 5.Honghe Prefectural Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China 6.Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit, School of Humanities, Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Southport, Queensland, Australia 7.Mengzi Institute of Cultural Relics, Mengzi, Yunnan, China 8.Institute for Environmental Research, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Sydney, Australia 9.School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 10.Chinese Acad Sci, State Key Lab Genet Resources & Evolut, Kunming Inst Zool, Kunming, Peoples R Chin
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Curnoe D[],Ji XP[],Herries AIR,et al. Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians[J]. PLOS ONE,2012,7(3):e31918.
APA	Curnoe D[].,Ji XP[].,Herries AIR.,Bai KN.,Tacon PSC.,...&Rogers N.(2012).Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians.PLOS ONE,7(3),e31918.
MLA	Curnoe D[*],et al."Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians".PLOS ONE 7.3(2012):e31918.