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Late Pleistocene human skull from Jingchuan,Gansu Province |
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| Authors: | HaiJun Li XiuJie Wu ShengHua Li WeiWen Huang Wu Liu |
| Institution: | 1 Key Laboratory of Evolutionary Systematics of Vertebrates, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China; 2 Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China; 3 Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China |
| Abstract: | Jingchuan human fossil, found in Gansu Province in 1976, was given a preliminary report in 1984, but questions remained concerning the age and character of the fossil. We conducted field investigation at Jingchuan in May of 2006 to examine the stratum yielding the human fossil and to obtain sediment samples for optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating. Three samples collected from different stratigraphic levels at the fossil locality yielded OSL dates of 15, 48 and 7.9 thousand years ago (ka), respect... |
| Keywords: | Jingchuan cranium human fossil Late Pleistocene traits |
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