Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia

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	Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia
	Zhu, RX ; Hoffman, KA ; Potts, R ; Deng, CL ; Pan, YX ; Guo, B ; Shi, CD ; Guo, ZT ; Yuan, BY ; Hou, YM ; Huang, WW ; Zhu, RX (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
	2001-09-27
发表期刊	NATURE
ISSN	0028-0836
卷号	413 期号:6854 页码:413-417
文章类型	Article
摘要	The timing of the earliest habitation and oldest stone technologies in different regions of the world remains a contentious topic in the study of human evolution(1-4). Here we contribute to this debate with detailed magnetostratigraphic results on two exposed parallel sections of lacustrine sediments at Xiaochangliang in the Nihewan Basin, north China; these results place stringent controls on the age of Palaeolithic stone artifacts that were originally reported over two decades ago(5). Our palaeomagnetic findings indicate that the artifact layer resides in a reverse polarity magnetozone bounded by the Olduvai and Jaramillo subchrons. Coupled with an estimated rate of sedimentation, these findings constrain the layer's age to roughly 1.36 million years ago. This result represents the age of the oldest known stone assemblage comprising recognizable types of Palaeolithic tool in east Asia, and the earliest definite occupation in this region as far north as 40 degrees N.; The timing of the earliest habitation and oldest stone technologies in different regions of the world remains a contentious topic in the study of human evolution(1-4). Here we contribute to this debate with detailed magnetostratigraphic results on two exposed parallel sections of lacustrine sediments at Xiaochangliang in the Nihewan Basin, north China; these results place stringent controls on the age of Palaeolithic stone artifacts that were originally reported over two decades ago(5). Our palaeomagnetic findings indicate that the artifact layer resides in a reverse polarity magnetozone bounded by the Olduvai and Jaramillo subchrons. Coupled with an estimated rate of sedimentation, these findings constrain the layer's age to roughly 1.36 million years ago. This result represents the age of the oldest known stone assemblage comprising recognizable types of Palaeolithic tool in east Asia, and the earliest definite occupation in this region as far north as 40 degrees N.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology
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关键词[WOS]	MAGNETIC-SUSCEPTIBILITY ; BASIN ; CHINA ; HOMO
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000171188700052
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/3849
专题	古人类及旧石器研究室
通讯作者	Zhu, RX (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China.
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China 2.Calif Polytech State Univ San Luis Obispo, Dept Phys, San Luis Obispo, CA 93410 USA 3.Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Human Origins Program, Washington, DC 20560 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhu, RX,Hoffman, KA,Potts, R,et al. Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia[J]. NATURE,2001,413(6854):413-417.
APA	Zhu, RX.,Hoffman, KA.,Potts, R.,Deng, CL.,Pan, YX.,...&Zhu, RX .(2001).Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia.NATURE,413(6854),413-417.
MLA	Zhu, RX,et al."Earliest presence of humans in northeast Asia".NATURE 413.6854(2001):413-417.