The Omo‐Turkana Basin fossil hominins and their contribution to our understanding of human evolution in Africa

B Wood, M Leakey - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Omo‐Turkana Basin, including the hominin fossil sites around Lake Turkana
and the sites along the lower reaches of the Omo River, has made and continues to make an …

An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago

KE Westaway, J Louys, RD Awe, MJ Morwood… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Genetic evidence for anatomically modern humans (AMH) out of Africa before 75 thousand
years ago (ka) and in island southeast Asia (ISEA) before 60 ka (93–61 ka) predates …

The earliest evidence for anatomically modern humans in northwestern Europe

T Higham, T Compton, C Stringer, R Jacobi, B Shapiro… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
The earliest anatomically modern humans in Europe are thought to have appeared around
43,000–42,000 calendar years before present (43–42 kyr cal bp), by association with …

Morphological description and comparison of the dental remains from Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos site (Spain)

M Martinón-Torres, JMB de Castro… - Journal of Human …, 2012 - Elsevier
The systematic excavation of the Sima de los Huesos (SH) site in Sierra de Atapuerca
(Burgos, Spain) has yielded the largest hominin collection worldwide for the Middle …

Morphological variation of major human populations based on nonmetric dental traits

T Hanihara - American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The patterns of inter‐and intra‐regional variation among 12 major geographical groups from
around the world were investigated based on 15 nonmetric dental traits. The R‐matrix …

Metric dental variation of major human populations

T Hanihara, H Ishida - … : The Official Publication of the American …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Mesiodistal and buccolingual crown diameters of all teeth recorded in 72 major human
population groups and seven geographic groups were analyzed. The results obtained are …

Modern human teeth from late Pleistocene Luna cave (Guangxi, China)

CJ Bae, W Wang, J Zhao, S Huang, F Tian… - Quaternary …, 2014 - Elsevier
We present two previously unreported hominin permanent teeth [one right upper second
molar (M2), one left lower second molar (m2)] from Lunadong (“dong”=“cave”), Guangxi …

“Official” and “practical” kin: Inferring social and community structure from dental phenotype at Neolithic Çatalhöyük, Turkey

MA Pilloud, CS Larsen - American Journal of Physical …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
The Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük, Turkey (7400–5600 cal BC) is widely acknowledged for its
role in the study of early farming communities. To better understand the social and …

Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene

M Martinón-Torres… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - National Acad Sciences
A common assumption in the evolutionary scenario of the first Eurasian hominin populations
is that they all had an African origin. This assumption also seems to apply for the Early and …

Who were the ancient Egyptians? Dental affinities among Neolithic through postdynastic peoples

JD Irish - American Journal of Physical Anthropology: The …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Qualitative and quantitative methods are employed to describe and compare up to 36 dental
morphological variants in 15 Neolithic through Roman‐period Egyptian samples. Trait …