Nevertheless, Pope (1992, p 251) suggests that it “is important to continue to employ separate terminologies for these widely separated geographic groups because there are substantial morphological differences between the Archaic Euro‐African and Neanderthals on the one hand and the Premodern Chinese hominids on the other.”. Meyer, Matthias, Martin Kircher, Marie-Theres Gansauge, Heng Li, Fernando Racimo, Swanpan Mallick, Joshua G. Schraiber, et al. Tham Kuyen, Ma U'Oi, 16. However, as discussed above, questions do exist about the relationship between the samples used for dating and the hominin fossils from these sites (see also Pope, 1992). The occipital fragment (upper left squamous region) is morphologically indistinguishable from archaic and modern H. sapiens (Demeter et al., 2005). 2011. Whatever shall we call late Middle Pleistocene eastern Asian hominins? Trinkaus, Erik. If these remarkably low population numbers are accurate, Neanderthals may never have been numerous enough to experience conditions in which there were enough individuals for favorable mutations to arise at a brisk pace. 2nd edition. 1999; Bonmatí et al. McDougall, Ian, Francis H. Brown, and John G. Fleagle. 2003. Based on biostratigraphy, Yokpo Daehyundong and Dokchon Soongnisan were both dated to the Middle‐Late Pleistocene (Norton, 2000). Luminescence dating places ~9000 artifacts in a stratigraphic sequence from ~13 to 200 thousand years ago (ka ago). For example, the cranial walls and brow ridges are less robust than H. erectus or Dali. Tectonic uplift-influenced monsoonal changes promoted hominin occupation of the Luonan Basin: Insights from a loess-paleosol sequence, eastern Qinling Mountains, central China. (2005) found that the Chaoxian and Ma U'Oi teeth could not be classified with the western Old World H. heidelbergensis and/or Neandertals. In Templeton's scenario, the second major dispersal event occurred sometime around 650 ka and involved some type of advanced H. erectus or archaic H. sapiens. 2008. The origin of races. Although it has recently been suggested that evidence of modern human behavior moved west to east (Norton and Jin, 2009), it should be remembered that morphological and behavioral evolution do not always go hand in hand. Thus, it seems fairly clear that the Ryonggok hominins represent modern humans rather than archaic H. sapiens. Ein Beitrag zur Palaontologie des Menschen. The usual cautions about the difference between census size and Ne apply, but one is left with the strong impression that western European Neanderthals experienced a major population crash during OIS 4. Locality A is represented by a typical Early/Middle Pleistocene fauna (e.g., Hyaena brevirostris licenti and Meganterion sp. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 11:5–16. I discuss each of these points in turn below. This would be particularly interesting because recent morphometric studies of some modern human fossils from China (e.g., Tianyuandong and ZKD Upper Cave) suggest certain affinities with western Asian and European modern humans (Kamminga and Wright, 1988; Kamminga, 1992; Cunningham and Wescott, 2002; Cunningham and Jantz, 2003; Shang et al., 2007; Harvati, 2009). The posterior part of the nuchal plane in front of the occipital torus, 13. Changes in population size have predictable consequences for the expected rate of neutral genetic change. The answer seems to be that climatic conditions did not favor a large, interconnected population in Africa between 125–ca. PLOS ONE, Dec 2019 Song Xing, María Martinón-Torres, José María Bermúdez de Castro, … 2002. The presence of archaic features has led to a potential affiliation to an uncharacterized archaic hominin species. In particular, they used a series of regression equations to estimate height, weight, and body proportions and determined that the Jinniushan female was ∼168 cm tall and ∼77 kg in weight. 1. Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. Siddall, M., E. J. Rohling, T. Blunier, and R. Spahni. Nevertheless, I suggest adding more species names to the already long list of Middle Pleistocene hominin taxa defeats the purpose of trying to better understand the dynamics involved with human evolution in eastern Asia. Bräuer, Günter. Selection generally works on a given gene only if different alleles exist and one confers higher fitness than another, although epistasis (the interdependence of genes to produce a phenotype) may produce a shifting target for selection. Currently, all non‐North Korean scholars are restricted to the published literature and secondary or tertiary casts of the North Korean hominin fossils. Lest one think that Neanderthals and Denisovans were fundamentally different from modern humans in the face of climatic instability, it is important to realize that some recent research to model effective population size in modern human populations based on genomic data suggests that both the ancestors of living Europeans and Chinese experienced one or more severe bottlenecks between 40 and 20 ka such that the effective population size of each of these populations shrank to a size of approximately during this interval before rebounding to a higher size (to Ne between 11,000 and 50,000) during the Holocene (Li and Durbin 2011). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108:20422–20427. The glacial cycles show up very clearly in oxygen isotope values from deep-sea cores and ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica (deMenocal 2004). Thum Wiman Nakin in Thailand is another potentially important locality that may eventually be considered an archaic H. sapiens site (Tougard et al., 1998). 2011). Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Tongzi, southern China. Kappelman, John. Modern human versus Neandertal evolutionary distinctiveness. 5). 2). He thanks Yingqi Zhang for help with Figure 1 and Hyejin Yoo who drew Figure 4. Fortunately, the recent studies by Roseman, Weaver, and colleagues (e.g., Roseman, 2004; Roseman and Weaver, 2004; Harvati and Weaver, 2006a, b; Weaver et al., 2007, 2008; Weaver and Roseman, 2008) that examine the relationship between cranial morphology and neutral genetic variation have begun to shed light on the subject (see also recent studies by Betti et al., 2009, 2010; Smith, 2009; von Cramon‐Taubadel, 2009a, b). Environmental and genetic data suggest that European hominins were primarily shaped by drift, while both factors operated in Africa. Ample precipitation over East Africa and the southern Sahara and Sahel promote the growth of vegetation, which decreases the amount of dust that winds scour off of the land. Because of the presence of fossil hominins in two distinct biogeographic zones (Palearctic and Oriental), the question that might arise is should we expect to find regional variation in hominin morphology as studies of eastern Asian human fossil materials have shown (e.g., Turner, 1990; Wu et al., 2007; Pietrusewsky, 2010)? 500,000 to 400,000 years ago (Middle Pleistocene), archaic humans split off from other groups of that period living in Africa and East Asia, ultimately settling in … He takes full responsibility for any errors that might be present in this article. 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Morphometric analysis of the Middle Pleistocene Tangshan, Huludong H. erectus crania (Liu et al., 2005), which is located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province (central‐east China), right along the Palearctic/Oriental boundary suggests this may be the case (see also Anton, 2002). In addition, the orbits are quadrangular, a characteristic common in H. erectus (Wu and Poirier, 1995). This is particularly the case for the African and European Middle Pleistocene hominin fossil record. erectus evolved into H. heidelbergensis in Africa •H. Detecting interregionally diversifying natural selection on modern human cranial form by using matched molecular and morphometric data. The arrows in figure 3 extend the analyses of Blome et al. Site ODP 659, off of the coast of Mauritania and Western Sahara, receives a substantial amount of its dust from the southern Sahara and northern Sahel during these months. Genetic drift provides an alternative explanation for morphological divergence (Howell 1957). Although other metric data is available for the North Korean hominin fossils, how the measurements match western terminology is still being ascertained. All rights reserved. Learn about our remote access options, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822. (2005) study found that the Tangshan H. erectus fossils share many features of the coeval Zhoukoudian (ZKD) Locality 1 hominins, but also had a few characters similar to the Indonesian H. erectus. “The obviously great diversity in using the name Homo heidelbergensis reveals that it is hardly a well‐defined taxon” (Brauer, 2008, p 32), thus leading Brauer (2008, p 35) to conclude that “the use of archaic Homo sapiens still appears adequate and plausible.”. Tenfold population increase in western Europe at the Neandertal-to-modern human transition. The environmental context for the origins of modern human diversity: a synthesis of regional variability in African climate 150,000–30,000 years ago. Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa. As new morphologies may be effectively invisible in the fossil record during periods of contracted population size, they may, in fact, appear in the record only slightly later, once population sizes had rebounded. An early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, Zhoukoudian, China, Mass spectrometric U‐series dating of Chaoxian hominid site at Yinshan, Eastern China, Which cranial regions reflect molecular distances reliably in humans? Payre 15 has mesotaurodont M1 roots and a three-rooted M2. 1). 3, mandible nos 4, 6, and femur, Cranial fragments, partial maxilla, loose teeth, 1. Demographic changes almost certainly tracked climatic conditions in both continents. heidelbergensis sensu stricto refers to a European chronospecies of H. neanderthalensis while H. heidelbergensis sensu lato is considered to be an Afro-European species ancestral to modern humans and Neandertals.. Statistical and biological definitions of “anatomically modern” humans: suggestions for an integrated approach to modern morphology. Journal of Human Evolution 55:421–437. The question of whether eastern Asian archaic H. sapiens should be classified as H. heidelbergensis can also be viewed in the light of dispersing hominin populations. Indeed, Lieberman (2008, p. 56) observes that “[s]kulls are complex, strongly integrated structures characterized by high levels of covariation among multiple structures, even in different regions such as the face, basicranium, and neurocranium.” A well‐known example of this is the long‐term influence on cranial morphology of a diet that relies more heavily on meat and cooked foods (including meat) (Aiello and Wheeler, 1995; Wrangham et al., 1999). Sørensen, Bent. 2004. Luminescence dating of the Jigongshan Paleolithic site in Hubei Province, southern China. It should be noted that Etler (1996) observed the presence of a canine fossa on the Yunxian H. erectus fossils, which may be penecontemporaneous with Gran Dolina or even older. Paris: The Hague. Roseman, Charles C. 2004. The Sima de los Huesos sample shows mosaics of Neanderthal and non-Neanderthal morphology in virtually all aspects of its morphology (Arsuaga et al. Trauth, Martin H., Juan C. Larrasoaña, and Manfred Mudelsee. 5). Less pressure leads to smaller teeth and reduced masseter and temporalis muscles and muscle attachments, which ultimately leads to a more orthognathic face and reduction or disappearance of the sagittal crest (as reviewed recently by Lieberman, 2008 among others). Salkhit, 13. The result was likely relatively rapid genetic drift and population differentiation among modern humans in Africa. However, the Maba cranial walls are thinner than H. erectus. 2012; Ruff, Trinkaus, and Holliday 1997). Water levels adapted from Scholz et al. These populations persisted in the Far East until late in the Middle Pleistocene, while in the West, the species disappeared at a relatively early date. According to Coppens et al. The Jinniushan estimated cranial capacity of ∼1,300 cm3 is within the range of modern humans. Given the fact that Jinniushan is located in a high‐latitude region, and given what we know of ecogeographic clines in body size and structure (sensu Bergmann's and Allen's Rules), the results of the Rosenberg et al. Late Pleistocene desiccation of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile. In June, July, and August, clockwise-circulation monsoonal winds blow moisture onshore in Somalia from the Indian Ocean and carry dust from Somalia into the Arabian Sea. Recently Martinón-Torres and colleagues (2012) have shown that the sample has very Neanderthal-like teeth; some of the nonmetrical features are even more common in the Sima de los Huesos sample than in late, “classic” Neanderthals from OIS 4 to OIS 3, which casts doubt on simple models of a steady increase in Neanderthal features over time. In addition to the well‐known H. erectus fossils from ZKD Locality 1, a number of important Middle Pleistocene archaic H. sapiens sites exist in Northeast Asia, primarily from China (Pope, 1992; Etler and Li, 1994; Wu and Poirier, 1995; Etler, 1996). 2007. The Jinniushan hominin pedal skeleton from the late Middle Pleistocene of China, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Assorted cranial and postcranial fragments representing single individual, Cranium no. The Chaoxian occipital and maxilla are described in detail by Wu and Poirier (1995) and the teeth by Bailey and Liu (2010). Rae, Todd C., Thomas Koppe, and Chris B. Stringer. Our results indicate that the Hexian teeth are metrically and morphologically primitive and overlap with H. ergaster and East Asian Early and mid-Middle Pleistocene hominins in their large dimensions and occlusal complexities. S. C. Reynolds and A. Gallagher, eds. 2009). Correlation of the KHS Tuff of the Kibish Formation to volcanic ash layers at other sites, and the age of early Homo sapiens (Omo I and Omo II). [Color figure can be viewed in the online issue, which is available at wileyonlinelibrary.com. Paleoanthropologists agree that these fossils are not the same as … This seems to have happened many times in the past, with conditions in OIS 2 serving as a case in point (Brooks and Robertshaw 1990; Deacon and Lancaster 1988). 2012. 2009. Perhaps the most pernicious, and certainly the most pervasive of all the various devices invented to sustain this new orthodoxy, was ‘archaic Homo sapiens.’” (Tattersall and Schwartz, 2008, p 50). Many authorities prefer the term “marine isotope stage” for this sequence because the marine sequence is the longest and most complete, but in light of the importance of ice cores in illuminating the last 300 kyr, I have used the older and more inclusive oxygen isotope stage (OIS) throughout this paper. The Arabian Sea dust core shows a 100,000-year oscillation between wet and dry with the most intense and long-lasting dry periods corresponding to the major glacial advances in the Northern Hemisphere (fig. New Middle Pleistocene hominin cranium from Gruta da Aroeira (Portugal) 15 marzo, 2017 3:25 pm / Deja un comentario. In contrast, periods of warmer but not yet heavily forested conditions would have supported a higher biomass of large herbivores and the humans who preyed on them (Roebroeks, Conard, and Van Kolfschoten 1992), thus producing an increase in hominin population numbers and a decelerated rate of drift. London: Unwin Hyman. 7 is estimated to be 1,450 cm3. However, it could be argued that the lack of clear autapomorphic characters that clearly define H. heidelbergensis is also grounds for considering it a wastebasket category as well. VIII (Wu and Poirier, 1995). Major dry phases would have been guaranteed to produce greatly expanded Sahara and Kalahari deserts and unfavorable conditions for human habitation. 2012); a vertically short face tucked beneath the frontal lobe (Lieberman 2011); retention of a canine fossa into adulthood; and the presence of a projecting chin on the mandible (Stringer 2002, 2007). American Journal of Human Genetics 82:1130–1140. Morphological variation does appear across time and space, and it could and should be classified (see also Rightmire, 1998, 2004, 2008). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 104:20753–20758. There have been suggestions that perhaps the eastern Asian late Middle Pleistocene hominins can also be allocated to the H. heidelbergensis hypodigm. For example, Rightmire (1998, p 221) observes that the Petralona and Broken Hill crania have similarities in cranial “height, breadth, and massive construction of the upper face and cheek, several measures of projection in the facial midline, configuration of the thickened brows, and many aspects of vault shape.” The case for H. heidelbergensis as a distinct taxon that represents many of the Middle Pleistocene hominin fossils from at least Africa and Europe is well documented (e.g., Rightmire, 1998, 2008; Stringer, 2002). 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Artist's reconstruction of a savannah in Middle Pleistocene Southeast Asia. Jinniushan, 10. The particular problem Tattersall (1986) sees is that closely related species (e.g., various Homo taxa) share many morphological character traits, which, in many cases, overlap in range and frequency. In addition, some recent approaches to cultural innovations also emphasize the role of chance, especially if change is dependent on population size and density (e.g., Powell, Shennan, and Thomas 2009; Shennan 2001). ———. Clark, J. D., J. de Heinzelin, K. D. Schick, W. K. Hart, T. D. White, G. WoldeGabriel, R. C. Walter, et al. Yunxian, 20. Rightmire, G. Philip. They found the best correspondence to observed patterns of human genetic variation in a model that features an origin of modern humans in Africa followed by exponential population growth, expansion from Africa and replacement of archaic hominins outside of Africa (specifically in Asia in their model) followed by exponential population growth in Asia, and finally a migration from Asia to the Americas followed by a final burst of exponential population growth in the New World. Day, M. H., and C. B. Stringer. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Zhoukoudian. 1993. (2010) recently redated the Chaoxian archaic H. sapiens site using the TIMS U‐series method and calculated an age bracket that places the hominin fossil between 360 and 310 ka. Journal of Human Evolution 31:21–39. 2007). ———. Yet a third scenario excludes H. heidelbergensis and favors the view that H. rhodesiensis/H. For example, in eastern Asia, these hominin fossils have been classified as archaic, early, or premodern H. sapiens. 2011. The first radiometric age by isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating for the Early Pleistocene Yuanmou hominin site, southern China. Nature 414:628–631. Blome, Margaret Whiting, Andrew S. Cohen, Christian A. Tryon, Alison S. Brooks, and Joellen Russell. 2013. 2010. Morphological adaptation to climate in modern and fossil hominids. 200,000 years ago, … A severe population bottleneck (or selection, which may be less likely) could produce such a pattern. Inferred population size changes in the history of Denisovans. 2013. Pope (1992), noting the rolled and abraded condition of the paleontological and archaeological materials, suggests that the collection accumulated as the result of fluvial activity. Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations. After that, all three populations experienced bottlenecks, although the one that affected the ancestors of the Yoruba appears to have been less severe and allowed an earlier recovery. Perhaps the strongest cases for H. heidelbergensis are presented by Rightmire (1998, 2001, 2004) and Groves and Lahr (1994). Nature Ecology and Evolution DOI: 10.1038/s41559-018-0698-9. A complete human pelvis from the Middle Pleistocene of Spain. These features are similarly common in European fossils dating to 300–200 ka but much more rare (or absent) in earlier fossils from other sites in Europe. Graves, Ronda R., Amy C. Lupo, Robert C. McCarthy, Daniel J. Wescott, and Deborah L. Cunningham. 2010. Bulging lateral to the upper part of pyriform aperture, 15. The middle pleistocene hominin features Society of London b 357:563–579 and two partial parietal fragments:. For human habitation generally fall within the range of ZKD locality 1 H. erectus yet known Paleolithic of:! 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