Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China

doi:10.1016/j.anthro.2020.102790

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	Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China
	Shen, Guanjun 4,5; Wang, Yiren 3; Tu, Hua 2; Tong, Haowen 9; Wu, Zhenkun 1; Kuman, Kathleen 8; Fink, David 7; Granger, Darryl E.6
刊名	ANTHROPOLOGIE
	2020-12-01
卷号	124 期号:5 页码:26
关键词	Palaeolithic site Xihoudu Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating Early Pleistocene Earliest human migration Homo erectus Northern China
ISSN号	0003-5521
DOI	10.1016/j.anthro.2020.102790
通讯作者	Shen, Guanjun(gjshen@njnu.edu.cn) ; Kuman, Kathleen() ; Granger, Darryl E.(dgranger@purdue.edu)
英文摘要	The mainstream school of human evolution posits that Homo erectus was the earliest species to leave Africa at similar to 1.85 million years (Ma) ago. Recent discoveries from the Shangchen loess-palaeosol sequence near the Lantian hominid site in northern China, however, show lithic artifacts up to 2.12 Ma, pre-dating the fossil record of H. erectus. Here we apply the recently established isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating, whose reliability has been verified by intercomparison with Ar-40/Ar-39 dating, to two locations at the Palaeolithic site of Xihoudu similar to 100 km east of Shangchen. The results show that the stone tools found within river gravels there are 2.43 +/- 0.06 Ma (1 sigma) old, making them the earliest radioisotopically dated evidence for human occupation in Eurasia. The new date is supported by relative dating of the associated fauna, by consistent simple burial ages of quartz sand from deep cores, and by agreement between the two isochrons. Although the validity of the Xihoudu artifacts has been previously debated because of marked fluvial abrasion, there is clear evidence of intentional flaking. In particular, in addition to two cores with small amounts of cortex, a number of flakes lack original rock cortex, which indicate multiple and sustained removals that do not occur naturally. The great antiquity of the Xihoudu artifacts renders firm support to an earlier "Out of Africa I" that approaches the emergence of the genus Homo and the Oldowan industry. (C) 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41273067] ; PAPD of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions ; NSF[EAR-1153689] ; National Research Foundation[88480]
WOS关键词	OLDUVAI GORGE ; EARLY HOMO ; YELLOW-RIVER ; BIPOLAR REDUCTION ; ARTIFACTS ; DMANISI ; BASIN ; AGE ; CONSTRAINTS ; CALIBRATION
WOS研究方向	Anthropology
语种	英语
出版者	ELSEVIER FRANCE-EDITIONS SCIENTIFIQUES MEDICALES ELSEVIER
WOS记录号	WOS:000601097300002
资助机构	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; PAPD of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions ; NSF ; National Research Foundation
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/15721]
专题	地球环境研究所_黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（2010~）
通讯作者	Shen, Guanjun; Kuman, Kathleen; Granger, Darryl E.
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Earth Environm, State Key Lab Loess & Quaternary Geol, Xian 710061, Shaanxi, Peoples R China 2.China Univ Geosci, Sch Earth Sci, BGEG, Wuhan 430074, Hubei, Peoples R China 3.Shanxi Prov Inst Archaeol, Taiyuan 030001, Shanxi, Peoples R China 4.Nanjing Normal Univ, Coll Geog Sci, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 5.Nanjing Normal Univ, Jiangsu Ctr Collaborat Innovat Geog Informat Reso, Nanjing 210023, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 6.Purdue Univ, Dept Earth Atmospher & Planetary Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA 7.Australian Nucl Sci & Technol Org, Menai, NSW 2234, Australia 8.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, ZA-2050 Johannesburg Wits, South Africa 9.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Shen, Guanjun,Wang, Yiren,Tu, Hua,et al. Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China[J]. ANTHROPOLOGIE,2020,124(5):26.
APA	Shen, Guanjun.,Wang, Yiren.,Tu, Hua.,Tong, Haowen.,Wu, Zhenkun.,...&Granger, Darryl E..(2020).Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China.ANTHROPOLOGIE,124(5),26.
MLA	Shen, Guanjun,et al."Isochron Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China".ANTHROPOLOGIE 124.5(2020):26.