Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos.
Little is known about the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in Eastern Eurasia. However a rapid migration out of Africa into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka is supported by archaeological, paleogenetic and paleoanthropological data. Recent discoveries in Laos, a modern human cranium (...
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| author | Fabrice Demeter Laura Shackelford Kira Westaway Philippe Duringer Anne-Marie Bacon Jean-Luc Ponche Xiujie Wu Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy Jian-Xin Zhao Lani Barnes Marc Boyon Phonephanh Sichanthongtip Frank Sénégas Anne-Marie Karpoff Elise Patole-Edoumba Yves Coppens José Braga |
| author_facet | Fabrice Demeter Laura Shackelford Kira Westaway Philippe Duringer Anne-Marie Bacon Jean-Luc Ponche Xiujie Wu Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy Jian-Xin Zhao Lani Barnes Marc Boyon Phonephanh Sichanthongtip Frank Sénégas Anne-Marie Karpoff Elise Patole-Edoumba Yves Coppens José Braga |
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| description | Little is known about the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in Eastern Eurasia. However a rapid migration out of Africa into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka is supported by archaeological, paleogenetic and paleoanthropological data. Recent discoveries in Laos, a modern human cranium (TPL1) from Tam Pa Ling's cave, provided the first evidence for the presence of early modern humans in mainland Southeast Asia by 63-46 ka. In the current study, a complete human mandible representing a second individual, TPL 2, is described using discrete traits and geometric morphometrics with an emphasis on determining its population affinity. The TPL2 mandible has a chin and other discrete traits consistent with early modern humans, but it retains a robust lateral corpus and internal corporal morphology typical of archaic humans across the Old World. The mosaic morphology of TPL2 and the fully modern human morphology of TPL1 suggest that a large range of morphological variation was present in early modern human populations residing in the eastern Eurasia by MIS 3. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a6d1a41da2314767ac1c7a29b1473c9e2022-12-21T21:30:56ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01104e012119310.1371/journal.pone.0121193Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos.Fabrice DemeterLaura ShackelfordKira WestawayPhilippe DuringerAnne-Marie BaconJean-Luc PoncheXiujie WuThongsa SayavongkhamdyJian-Xin ZhaoLani BarnesMarc BoyonPhonephanh SichanthongtipFrank SénégasAnne-Marie KarpoffElise Patole-EdoumbaYves CoppensJosé BragaLittle is known about the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in Eastern Eurasia. However a rapid migration out of Africa into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka is supported by archaeological, paleogenetic and paleoanthropological data. Recent discoveries in Laos, a modern human cranium (TPL1) from Tam Pa Ling's cave, provided the first evidence for the presence of early modern humans in mainland Southeast Asia by 63-46 ka. In the current study, a complete human mandible representing a second individual, TPL 2, is described using discrete traits and geometric morphometrics with an emphasis on determining its population affinity. The TPL2 mandible has a chin and other discrete traits consistent with early modern humans, but it retains a robust lateral corpus and internal corporal morphology typical of archaic humans across the Old World. The mosaic morphology of TPL2 and the fully modern human morphology of TPL1 suggest that a large range of morphological variation was present in early modern human populations residing in the eastern Eurasia by MIS 3.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121193 |
| spellingShingle | Fabrice Demeter Laura Shackelford Kira Westaway Philippe Duringer Anne-Marie Bacon Jean-Luc Ponche Xiujie Wu Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy Jian-Xin Zhao Lani Barnes Marc Boyon Phonephanh Sichanthongtip Frank Sénégas Anne-Marie Karpoff Elise Patole-Edoumba Yves Coppens José Braga Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. PLoS ONE |
| title | Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. |
| title_full | Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. |
| title_fullStr | Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. |
| title_short | Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos. |
| title_sort | early modern humans and morphological variation in southeast asia fossil evidence from tam pa ling laos |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0121193 |
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