BACKGROUND The earliest fossils of Homo sapiens are located in Africa and dated to the
late Middle Pleistocene. At some point later, modern humans dispersed into Asia and …

Behavioral modernity is considered one of the defining characteristics separating modern
humans from earlier hominin lineages. Over the course of the past two decades, the nature …

Pleistocene water crossings, long thought to be an innovation of Homo sapiens, may extend
beyond our species to encompass Middle and Early Pleistocene Homo. However, it remains …

The origin of modern humans continues to be one of the most heavily debated topics within
paleoanthropology. Eastern Asia, and particularly China, is a geographic region that is …

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ARCHAEOLOGY OF EAST ASIA The Rise of Civilization in China, Korea and Japan Gina L …

Drawing upon invasion biology and the latest archaeological, skeletal and environment
evidence, From Arabia to the Pacific documents the migration of humans into Asia, and …

Due to the presence of multiple partial modern human skeletons thought to have been
interred along with a diversity of evidence of symbolic behavior, Zhoukoudian Upper Cave …

In the late Late Pleistocene (lLP), Japanese terrestrial large mammals consisted of two main
groups; the Palaeoloxodon-Sinomegaceroides complex and the mammoth fauna. The …

A deeper understanding of the eastern Asian Late Pleistocene paleoanthropological record
will contribute to some resolution of the modern human origins debate. Here, I review the …

This paper presents a list of> 100 publicly known late Quaternary proboscidean sites that
have certain or possible traces of hominin utilization in Africa, Europe, and Asia, along with a …