Corrigendum to “A Late Pleistocene modern human fossil from the Gunang Cave, Danyang county in Korea [Quat. Int. 519 (2019) 82–91]”

AbstractModern humans appeared in Europe by at least 45,000 years ago1–5, but the extent of their interactions with Neanderthals, who disappeared by about 40,000 years ago6, and their relationship to the broader expansion of modern humans outside Africa are poorly understood. Here we present genome-wide data from three individuals dated to between 45,930 and 42,580 years ago from Bacho Kiro Cave, Bulgaria1,2. They are the earliest Late Pleistocene modern humans known to have been recovered in Europe so far, and were found in association with an Initial Upper Palaeolithic artefact assemblage. Unlike two previously studied individuals of similar ages from Romania7 and Siberia8 who did not contribute detectably to later populations, these individuals are more closely related to present-day and ancient populations in East Asia and the Americas than to later west Eurasian populations. This indicates that they belonged to a modern human migration into Europe that was not previously known from the genetic record, and provides evidence that there was at least some continuity between the earliest modern humans in Europe and later people in Eurasia. Moreover, we find that all three individuals had Neanderthal ancestors a few generations back in their family history, confirming that the first European modern humans mixed with Neanderthals and suggesting that such mixing could have been common.

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Functional relationship between dental macrowear and diet in Late Pleistocene and recent modern human populations

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology ◽

10.1002/oa.2642 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 153-161 ◽

Cited By ~ 10

Author(s):

Luca Fiorenza ◽

Stefano Benazzi ◽

Gregorio Oxilia ◽

Ottmar Kullmer

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Functional Relationship ◽

Modern Human ◽

Human Populations

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A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt

Antiquity ◽

10.1017/s0003598x00086919 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 72 (277) ◽

pp. 475-484 ◽

Cited By ~ 57

Author(s):

P. M. Vermeersch ◽

E. Paulissen ◽

P. Van Peer ◽

S. Stokes ◽

C. Charlier ◽

...

Keyword(s):

East Africa ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Modern Human ◽

Nile Valley ◽

Middle Palaeolithic ◽

African Origin ◽

Modern Humans ◽

Origin Of Modern Humans ◽

Clear Relation ◽

Aeolian Sands

Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age between 49,800 and 80,400 years ago, with a mean age of 55,000.

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Archaic human remains from Hualongdong, China, and Middle Pleistocene human continuity and variation

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.1902396116 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 116 (20) ◽

pp. 9820-9824 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Xiu-Jie Wu ◽

Shu-Wen Pei ◽

Yan-Jun Cai ◽

Hao-Wen Tong ◽

Qiang Li ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

East Asian ◽

Human Remains ◽

Modern Human ◽

Middle Pleistocene ◽

Third Molars ◽

Human Morphology ◽

Nasal Floor ◽

Medial Pterygoid ◽

Early Late

Middle to Late Pleistocene human evolution in East Asia has remained controversial regarding the extent of morphological continuity through archaic humans and to modern humans. Newly found ∼300,000-y-old human remains from Hualongdong (HLD), China, including a largely complete skull (HLD 6), share East Asian Middle Pleistocene (MPl) human traits of a low vault with a frontal keel (but no parietal sagittal keel or angular torus), a low and wide nasal aperture, a pronounced supraorbital torus (especially medially), a nonlevel nasal floor, and small or absent third molars. It lacks a malar incisure but has a large superior medial pterygoid tubercle. HLD 6 also exhibits a relatively flat superior face, a more vertical mandibular symphysis, a pronounced mental trigone, and simple occlusal morphology, foreshadowing modern human morphology. The HLD human fossils thus variably resemble other later MPl East Asian remains, but add to the overall variation in the sample. Their configurations, with those of other Middle and early Late Pleistocene East Asian remains, support archaic human regional continuity and provide a background to the subsequent archaic-to-modern human transition in the region.

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Late Pleistocene Subsistence Strategies in Island Southeast Asia and Their Implications for Understanding the Development of Modern Human Behaviour

Southern Asia, Australia and the Search for Human Origins ◽

10.1017/cbo9781139084741.010 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 118-134 ◽

Cited By ~ 12

Author(s):

Philip J. Piper ◽

Ryan J. Rabett

Keyword(s):

Southeast Asia ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Modern Human ◽

Human Behaviour ◽

Subsistence Strategies ◽

Island Southeast Asia

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The Age and Context of the KC4 Maxilla, Kent's Cavern, UK

European Journal of Archaeology ◽

10.1017/eaa.2016.1 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 74-97 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Chris Proctor ◽

Katerina Douka ◽

Janet W. Proctor ◽

Tom Higham

Keyword(s):

Modern Human ◽

Poor Quality ◽

Bayesian Modelling ◽

Upper Palaeolithic ◽

North West ◽

Human Fossil ◽

The Poor ◽

Cast Doubt ◽

Early Upper

Kent's Cavern is one of Britain's most important Palaeolithic sites. The Torquay Natural History Society excavations in the Vestibule (1926–1928 and 1932–1938) yielded Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic deposits as well as a fragment of human jaw (KC4). Higham et al. (2011) recently identified it as the oldest modern human fossil known from North West Europe, with a date estimated, using Bayesian modelling, at 44,200–41,500 cal bp (at 95.4% probability). However, White and Pettitt (2012) and Zilhão (2013) have claimed that the poor quality of the excavations and lack of stratigraphic integrity cast doubt on the archaeological and dating evidence from the site. Here, we present a thorough re-analysis of the excavations and show that they were in fact conducted to a reasonable standard. We also carefully examine the stratigraphic and sedimentological sequence and present twelve new AMS determinations from key contexts to test the previous model and chronology. We find that, while Trench C has good stratigraphic integrity, there is some evidence of post-depositional disruption of certain parts; some post-depositional movement is also shown by a limited number of artefact refits. There are two outlying AMS determinations dating to c. 32,000 bp. We therefore cannot exclude completely the possibility that the maxilla's age could be younger than the published probability distribution function (PDF). Our analysis lends support to the assessment by Higham et al. (2011) of the site and KC4 and shows that it offers considerable potential for future study.

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Early MIS 3 occupation of Mochena Borago Rockshelter, Southwest Ethiopian Highlands: Implications for Late Pleistocene archaeology, paleoenvironments and modern human dispersals

Quaternary International ◽

10.1016/j.quaint.2012.03.047 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 274 ◽

pp. 38-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 56

Author(s):

Steven A. Brandt ◽

Erich C. Fisher ◽

Elisabeth A. Hildebrand ◽

Ralf Vogelsang ◽

Stanley H. Ambrose ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Late Pleistocene ◽

Modern Human ◽

Ethiopian Highlands ◽

Mis 3

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A Brief Overview of the Last 10 Years of Major Late Pleistocene Discoveries in the Old World: Homo floresiensis, Neanderthal, and Denisovan

Journal of Anthropology ◽

10.1155/2014/581689 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 2014 ◽

pp. 1-7

Author(s):

Fernanda Neubauer

Keyword(s):

New Species ◽

Human Evolution ◽

Late Pleistocene ◽

Morphological Diversity ◽

Genetic Data ◽

Modern Human ◽

Separate Species ◽

Skeletal Morphology ◽

Old World ◽

Human Dna

In the last ten years, new fossil, archaeological, and genetic data have significantly altered our understanding of the peopling of the Old World in the Late Pleistocene. Scholars have long been challenged to define humanity’s place in evolution and to trace our phylogeny. Differences in the skeletal morphology of hominin fossils have often led to the naming of distinct new species, but recent genetic findings have challenged the traditional perspective by demonstrating that modern human DNA contains genes inherited from Neanderthals and Denisovans, thus questioning their status as separate species. The recent discovery of Homo floresiensis from Flores Island has also raised interesting queries about how much genetic and morphological diversity was present during the Late Pleistocene. This paper discusses the nature and implications of the evidence with respect to Homo floresiensis, Neanderthals, and Denisovans and briefly reviews major Late Pleistocene discoveries from the last ten years of research in the Old World and their significance to the study of human evolution.

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