New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian(Gongwangling), China

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.001

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	New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian(Gongwangling), China
	Rao,ZG(Rao,Zhiguo)[1]; Zhu,ZY(Zhu,Zhaoyu)[1,2]; Dennell,R(Dennell,Robin)[3]; Huang,WW(Huang,Weiwen)[4]; Wu,Y(Wu,Yi)[1,2]; Qiu,SF(Qiu,Shifan)[1]; Xie,JB(Xie,Jiubing)[1]; Liu,W(Liu,Wu)[4]; Fu,SQ(Fu,Shuqing)[1]; Han,JW(Han,Jiangwei)[1]
刊名	Journal of Human Evolution
	2015-01
卷号	78 期号:2015 页码:144-157
关键词	Asia Lantian Homo erectus Stratigraphy Palaeomagnetism Re-dating
DOI	10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.10.001
文献子类	期刊论文
英文摘要	The Homo erectus cranium from Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province is the oldest fossil hominin specimen from North China. It was found in 1964 in a layer below the Jaramillo subchron and was attributed to loess (L) L15 in the Chinese loess-palaeosol sequence, with an estimated age of ca. 1.15 Ma (millions of years ago). Here, we demonstrate that there is a stratigraphical hiatus in the Gongwangling section immediately below loess 15, and the cranium in fact lies in palaeosol (S) S22 or S23, the age of which is ca. 1.54e1.65 Ma. Closely spaced palaeomagnetic sampling at two sections at Gongwangling and one at Jiacun, 10 km to the north, indicate that the fossil layer at Gongwangling and a similar fossil horizon at Jiacun were deposited shortly before a short period of normal polarity above the Olduvai subchron. This is attributed to the Gilsa Event that has been dated elsewhere to ca. 1.62 Ma. Our investigations thus demonstrate that the Gongwangling cranium is slightly older than ca. 1.62 Ma, probably ca. 1.63 Ma, and significantly older than previously supposed. This re-dating now makes Gongwangling the second oldest site outside Africa (after Dmanisi) with cranial remains, and causes substantial re-adjustment in the early fossil hominin record in Eurasia.
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/9599]
专题	地球环境研究所_黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（2010~）
作者单位	1.Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China 2.Department of Archaeology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom; 3.State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xi'an 710075, China; 4.Key Laboratory of Marginal Sea Geology, Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510640, China;
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rao,ZG,Zhu,ZY,Dennell,R,et al. New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian(Gongwangling), China[J]. Journal of Human Evolution,2015,78(2015):144-157.
APA	Rao,ZG.,Zhu,ZY.,Dennell,R.,Huang,WW.,Wu,Y.,...&Zhou,HY.(2015).New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian(Gongwangling), China.Journal of Human Evolution,78(2015),144-157.
MLA	Rao,ZG,et al."New dating of the Homo erectus cranium from Lantian(Gongwangling), China".Journal of Human Evolution 78.2015(2015):144-157.