The Homo sapiens Cave hominin site of Mulan Mountain, Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo, Guangxi with emphasis on its age
The Homo sapiens Cave hominin site of Mulan Mountain, Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo, Guangxi with emphasis on its age
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10.1007/s11434-009-0641-1
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2009-11
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Chang-zhu Jin;Wenshi Pan;Yingqi Zhang;Yanjun Cai;Qinqin Xu;Zhi-lu Tang;Wei Wang;Yuanping Wang;Jinyi Liu;Dagong Qin;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng
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Chang-zhu Jin;Wenshi Pan;Yingqi Zhang;Yanjun Cai;Qinqin Xu;Zhi-lu Tang;Wei Wang;Yuanping Wang;Jinyi Liu;Dagong Qin;R. Lawrence Edwards;Hai Cheng
现代人类的起源是古人类学中争论最激烈、最前沿的问题之一。最近，在广西崇左木兰山智人洞出土了一具不完整的人类下颌骨，其颏隆突明显弱于现代人类，同时还发现了多种哺乳动物化石。该洞哺乳动物群以江南象、最早出现的南方象和南方巨象的组合为特征，与华南早更新世巨猿和中更新世大熊猫-白象动物群有明显区别，可作为亚洲象动物群的早期代表。动物区系分析，生物地层对比，最重要的是，U系列测年都一致支持估计约。110 ka为智人与哺乳动物群共存的时代，即晚更新世早期。动物区系成分以热带-亚热带成分为主，但草原成分的多样性远大于森林成分，这可能反映了当时的气候较为干燥。木兰山早期智人的发现，对研究现代人类的起源及其环境背景具有重要意义。
One of the most hotly debated and frontal issues in paleoanthropology focuses on the origins of modern humans. Recently, an incomplete hominin mandible with a distinctly weaker mental protuberance than modern human and a great variety of coexisting fossil mammals were unearthed from theHomo sapiensCave of Mulan Mountain, Chongzuo, Guangxi. The mammalian fauna from theHomo sapiensCave characterized by the combination ofElephas kiangnanensis, first occurringElephas maixmus, andMegatapirus augustus, and strikingly different from the Early PleistoceneGigantopithecusfauna and the Middle PleistoceneAiluropoda-Stogodonfauna of South China could be regarded as an early representive of the typical Asian elephant fauna. Faunal analysis, biostratigraphic correlation, and, most importantly, U-series dating all consistently support an estimate of ca. 110 ka for the age of the fossilHomo sapiensand coexisting mammalian fauna, that is, the early Late Pleistocene. The fauna is mainly made up of tropical-subtropical elements, but grassland elements have a much greater variety than forest elements, which probably indicates a drier climate at that time. This discovery of earlyHomo sapiensat the Mulan Mountain will play a significant role in the study of the origin and its environmental background of modern humans.