The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China

摘要: For more than a century, scientists have returned time and again to the issue of modern human emergence-the when where evolutionary process behavioral biological dynamics involved The 2003 discovery partial skeleton at Tianyuandong (Tianyuan Cave) excited worldwide interest. first from region be directly radiocarbon-dated (to 40,000 years before present), its geological age places it close period during which humans became permanently established across Old World (between 50,000 35,000 ago). Through detailed description interpretation most complete early eastern Asia, Early Modern Human Tianyan Cave, China, addresses long-term questions about ancestry in Asia nature changes behavior with emergence biology. This book is detailed, paleontological paleobiological presentation this skeleton, context, implications. By providing basic information for important fossil, offering inferences concerning population processes Eurasia, by raising adaptations these hunter-gatherers, Tianyuan China will take place as core contribution study emergence.