Regarding the chronological antiquity of AR-63, it would be interesting to include other fossil perinatal ilia from the UP. Based on previously published figures, the Epigravettian ilia of the Ostuni 1b fetus (Italy; Ref.85) presents in superior view a curvature of the iliac crest clearly cl...
Eastern Africa during the Middle–Late Pleistocene offered a wide range of habitats, and deposits of this age are rich in human fossils and archaeological remains1,2,3,4. Hypotheses seeking to explain links between climate and human origins are difficult to test because both climate records and ...
As all hypotheses about the environmental effects on evolution depend on temporal correlation, the central challenges should be: to finely resolve the chronological framework, to understand the nature of diachroneity among bioevents across geographical and ecological boundaries, to be able to make ...
a small-brained hominin with an unusual mosaic of ancient and modern traits, dated to the beginning of the LMP (i.e., 335–236 ka32). Both the discovery of an LMP ‘archaic’ lookingHomospecies and the results of the present study underline the complexity of the morphological variation ...
correlation and supports the argument that the Yiyuan and Zhoukoudian Locality 1 H. erectusfossils are contemporaneous. The results presented here, along with other recent chronological studies on Chinese Middle Pleistocene hominin sites, indicate that the time span from 600–400 ka (thousand years ...
Qinling Mountain Range; mid-Pleistocene transition; hominin occupation and dispersal; chronological framework; dispersal corridors1. Introduction The role of climate change in pacing hominin evolution and dispersals has been the subject of intense study and debate [1,2,3,4,5,6,7]. Some studies ...