Dispersals,colonisation,immigration and population assimilation or replacement are fundamental themes in the Palaeolithic record of East Asia.Some of these issues can be studied within a biogeographic framework that e...
National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant 42372001.
Dear Editor,Chibanian(Middle Pleistocene)hominin fossils that could not be easily assigned to Homo erectus,H.neanderthalensis,or H.sapiens have traditionally been as-signed to an alinclusive group:"archaic H.sapiens."...
We present, for the first time, the repair by plastic surgery procedures of a large loss of perineal substance in a bonobo (hominin Pan paniscus). A 20-year-old male bonobo living in captivity in the Lola Ya Bonobo Sa...
National Social Science Foundation of China,No.19ZDA225;National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.41972185;The Project of Zhengzhou University,No.XKZDJC202006。
The Qinling Mountain Range(QMR)spans a large region in China and is an important area of hominin activities.Many Paleolithic sites are found in Bahe,South Luohe,and Hanjiang river valleys in the northern,eastern,and s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41971110 and 41888101);the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0601);the Early Career Scheme of Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(28300717)。
At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft travertine.The travertine was deposited by water from a ...
With the support by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and National Natural Science Foundation of China,the research team directed by Prof.Zhu ZhaoYu (朱照宇)at the Guangzhou Institute of Geochemistry/State Key Laborator...
funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program;the China-South Africa Bilateral Programme in Palaeolithic Archaeology to Gao Xing(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China-South Africa Joint Research Program-7);K.Kuman(National Research Foundation,Grant No.88480)
In this paper we report on Longgudong,an Early Pleistocene cave site in south China which was systematically excavated in 1999 and 2000,and where human teeth and associated stone artifacts were discovered within the s...
the Australian Research Council (DP0877603), the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the University of New South Wales and Griffith University for funding this research
Three-dimensional mapping and section work undertaken by us in 2008 have identified 11 stratigraphic units at Maludong site.AMS radiocarbon dating of charcoal established an accurate and internally consistent age prof...
supported by Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No.KZCX2-YW-106);National Natural Science Founda-tion of China (Grant Nos.40772016 and 40972017);International Cooperation Program of MST of China (Grant Nos.2007DFB20330 and 2009DFB20580)
Although the early Pleistocene hominin fossils found in East Asia continent are widely recognized as the earliest hominins migrated from Africa, debates remain on the morphology and taxonomy of these fossils. In this ...
supported by the Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (KZCX2-YW-106);National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No. 40772018);National Basic Research Pro-gram of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400).
Hominin fossils are the most important materials for exploring questions about human origins and evolution. Because human fossils are very rare, it is impossible to use highly destructive techniques in order to study ...