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Dating the skull from Broken Hill, Zambia, and its position in human evolution
Abstract The cranium from Broken Hill (Kabwe) was recovered from cave deposits in 1921, during metal ore mining in what is now Zambia1. It is one of the best-preserved skulls of a fossil hominin, and was initially designated as the type specimen of Homo rhodesiensis, but recently it has often been included in the taxon Homo heidelbergensis2,3,4.
A strontium isoscape of north‐east Australia for human provenance and repatriation
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Response to Comment on “The earliest modern humans outside Africa”
In reply to Sharp and Paces’ comments on our recent paper (1), we here clarify some points that may have remained unappreciated in our initial work. Sharp and Paces (2) claim that Misliya-1 may not be as old [177 to 194 thousand years (ka)] as we argued (1). They propose an alternative interpretation for the U-series data we reported on calcitic crusts [table S1 of (1)], leading to the calculation of an apparent age of 60 to 70 ka.
<i>Homo sapiens</i> in Arabia by 85,000 years ago
Jennings, R. P. et al. The greening of Arabia: multiple opportunities for human occupation in the Arabian Peninsula during the Late Pleistocene inferred from an ensemble of climate model simulations. Quatern. Int. 205, 181–199 (2015). Navok, T., Guillory, W. X., Julius, M. L., Theriort, E. C. & Alverson, A. J.
The first humans in Australia lived alongside giant wombats and other beasts for 17,000 years
Australia was once home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this megafauna has been the subject of a debate that has persisted since the 19th century. Despite great advances in the available scientific techniques for investigating the problem, answering the key question of how they became extinct has remained elusive.
Aboriginal Australians co-existed with the megafauna for at least 17,000 years
Australia was once home to giant reptiles, marsupials and birds (and some not so giant), but the extinction of this megafauna has been the subject of a debate that has persisted since the 19th century. Despite great advances in the available scientific techniques for investigating the problem, answering the key question of how they became extinct has remained elusive.
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