Early Homo and associated artefacts from Asia [ Out of Africa and China? ]

Nature ^ | 16 November 1995 | Wanpo, Ciochon, Yumin, Larick, Qiren, Schwarcz, Yonge, de Vos & Rink

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The site of Longgupo Cave was discovered in 1984 and excavated in 1985-1988 by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Beijing) and the Chongqing National Museum (Sichuan Province). Important finds include very archaic hominid dental fragments, Gigantopithecus teeth and primitive stone tools. Paleomagnetic analysis and the presence of Ailuropoda microta (pygmy giant panda) suggeste that the hominid- bearing levels dated to the earliest Pleistocene1. In 1992, joint Chinese-American-Canadian geochronological research corroborated the age using electron spin resonance (ESR) analysis. We report here that the hominid dentition and stone tools from Longgupo Cave are comparable in age and morphology with early representatives of the genus Homo (H. habilis and H. ergaster) and the Oldowan technology in East Africa. The Longgupo dentition is demonstrably more primitive than that seen in Asian Homo erectus. Longgupo’s diverse and well- preserved Plio-Pleistocene fauna of 116 species provides a sensitive contextual base for interpreting the early arrival of the genus Homo in Asia.

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[SunkenCiv]

I didn't find it posted. Article from 1995.

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[johnny7]

Early Homo... Country French...

[SunkenCiv]

I got the link from the former FReeper Sabertooth:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/794165/posts?page=17#17

[martin_fierro]

You said "homo"

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[blam]

I miss Sabretooth.

[SunkenCiv]

Milk that joke for as long as you can.

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[Alas Babylon!]

Why did Sabertooth (she? he?) get banned?

[blam]

"Why did Sabertooth (she? he?) get banned?"

That's what his home page says.

[BnBlFlag]

Early Homo's?

[BruceysMom]

Jeez I only read this cause I thought it was about Quentin Crisp.