Asia's first people: the role of East Asia in human evolution during the past half million years.

我们早就应该就东亚在我们的发展过程中的重要性发表一份新的声明。人类在50万至2万年前的进化发展将从考古学、生物学、动物学、生态学、环境和迁徙的角度进行研究。我们将综合分散的东亚文献，实地考察未发表的材料，并进行新的实地调查。挖掘工作将在缅甸的两个地点进行，这是50年来的第一次。国家政府和地方当局已经批准我们的小组进入并开始工作。

A new statement about the importance of East Asia in our evolution is long overdue. The evolutionary development of humans between 500,000 and 20,000 years ago will be examined from archaeological, biological, faunal, ecological, environmental and migrational perspectives. We will synthesise the scattered East Asian literature, examine unpublished material in situ and conduct new fieldwork. Excavations will take place at two locations in Myanmar, the first in 50 years. Permission has already been granted by the national government and local authorities for our team to have access and to begin work.