Quaternary strata in China mainly comprise continental deposits in a variety of depositional
settings. The continental Quaternary in temperate northern China consists mainly of eolian …

The Suidae are a family of Cetartiodactyla composed of 17 species classified in a minimum
of five extant genera that originated at least 20 million years ago. Their success is evident in …

The Pleistocene presence of the genus Homo in continental Southeast Asia is primarily
evidenced by a sparse stone tool record and rare human remains. Here we report a Middle …

Southeast Asia has emerged as an important region for understanding hominin and
mammalian migrations and extinctions. High-profile discoveries have shown that Southeast …

The fluviatile terrace deposits of Khok Sung, Nakhon Ratchasima province, have yielded
more than one thousand fossils, making this the richest Pleistocene vertebrate fauna of …

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 …

Since 2004, five new early Pleistocene cave sites with Gigantopithecus blacki and other
fossil mammals have been discovered in the Chongzuo, Zuojiang River area, Guangxi …

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 …

Determining the diet of fossil apes is essential to understand primate evolution. The giant
form from Southeast Asia, Gigantopithecus blacki, may have been up to 270 kg and survived …

Late Quaternary megafaunal extinction chronologies are poorly understood across eastern
and south-east Asia. Previous radiometric studies suggested that surprisingly many extinct …