As the largest depression in the Tibetan plateau, the Qaidam basin preserves over 10 km
thick of Cenozoic sediments. Those sediments represent a unique archive of the evolution of …

Numbers of animal species react to the natural phenomenon of fire, but only humans have
learnt to control it and to make it at will. Natural fires caused overwhelmingly by lightning are …

Considerable attention has been paid to dating the earliest appearance of hominins outside
Africa. The earliest skeletal and artefactual evidence for the genus Homo in Asia currently …

The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue, with claims for regular fire
use by early hominins in Africa at∼ 1.6 million y ago. These claims are not uncontested, but …

The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of
humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology …

磁性矿物的组成和颗粒粒径的分布决定了岩石或沉积物的基本磁学性质及其所携带的天然剩磁
在地质时期内的稳定性. 由于自然界中磁性矿物的复杂性和多样性, 如何有效的确定磁性矿物的 …

摘要主要评述了近年来泥河湾盆地磁性地层学的研究进展, 包括建立泥河湾组的磁性地层年代格
架, 厘定泥河湾动物群的时代和确定华北地区早期人类活动年代序列. 研究表明: 第一 …

The early Pleistocene colonization of temperate Eurasia by Homo erectus was not only a
significant biogeographic event but also a major evolutionary threshold. Dmanisi's rich …

Although scientists are aware that humans share the same biological heritage as do all
other organisms on the planet, the reliance of Homo sapiens on culture and cooperation has …

The dispersal of early humans from Africa by 1.75 Myr ago led to a marked expansion of
their range, from the island of Flores in the east to the Iberian peninsula in the west,,,,. This …