Earliest known hominin activity in the Philippines by 709 thousand years ago.

Autor: Ingicco T; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France. ingicco@mnhn.fr.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France. ingicco@mnhn.fr.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France. ingicco@mnhn.fr.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France. ingicco@mnhn.fr., van den Bergh GD; Centre for Archaeological Science, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia., Jago-On C; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines., Bahain JJ; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France., Chacón MG; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.; IPHES - Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain.; Area de Prehistoria, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain., Amano N; Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany., Forestier H; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France., King C; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines., Manalo K; Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines., Nomade S; Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France.; UMR 8212, CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France.; Université Paris-Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France., Pereira A; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.; Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, CEA, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France.; UMR 8212, CNRS, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France.; Université Paris-Saclay, Gif Sur Yvette Cedex, France.; Ecole française de Rome, Roma, Italy.; Sezione di scienze preistoriche e antropologiche, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy., Reyes MC; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines. mariancreyes@gmail.com.; Archaeological Studies Program, University of the Philippines Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. mariancreyes@gmail.com., Sémah AM; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France.; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, UMR LOCEAN 7159, Bondy, France., Shao Q; School of Geographical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China., Voinchet P; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France., Falguères C; UMR 7194, CNRS, Paris, France.; Département Homme et Environnement, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France.; Université de Perpignan Via Domitia, Perpignan, France.; Sorbonne Université, Paris, France., Albers PCH; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands., Lising M; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines.; Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City, Philippines., Lyras G; Faculty of Geology and Geoenvironment, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece., Yurnaldi D; Centre for Geological Survey, Geological Agency, Bandung, Indonesia., Rochette P; Aix-Marseille Université, Aix en Provence, France.; UM34, CNRS, Aix en Provence, France.; IRD, Aix en Provence, France.; Collège de France, Paris, France.; CEREGE, Aix en Provence, France., Bautista A; National Museum of the Philippines, Manila, Philippines., de Vos J; Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden, Netherlands.
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Zdroj: Nature [Nature] 2018 May; Vol. 557 (7704), pp. 233-237. Date of Electronic Publication: 2018 May 02.
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-018-0072-8
Abstrakt: Over 60 years ago, stone tools and remains of megafauna were discovered on the Southeast Asian islands of Flores, Sulawesi and Luzon, and a Middle Pleistocene colonization by Homo erectus was initially proposed to have occurred on these islands 1-4 . However, until the discovery of Homo floresiensis in 2003, claims of the presence of archaic hominins on Wallacean islands were hypothetical owing to the absence of in situ fossils and/or stone artefacts that were excavated from well-documented stratigraphic contexts, or because secure numerical dating methods of these sites were lacking. As a consequence, these claims were generally treated with scepticism 5 . Here we describe the results of recent excavations at Kalinga in the Cagayan Valley of northern Luzon in the Philippines that have yielded 57 stone tools associated with an almost-complete disarticulated skeleton of Rhinoceros philippinensis, which shows clear signs of butchery, together with other fossil fauna remains attributed to stegodon, Philippine brown deer, freshwater turtle and monitor lizard. All finds originate from a clay-rich bone bed that was dated to between 777 and 631 thousand years ago using electron-spin resonance methods that were applied to tooth enamel and fluvial quartz. This evidence pushes back the proven period of colonization 6 of the Philippines by hundreds of thousands of years, and furthermore suggests that early overseas dispersal in Island South East Asia by premodern hominins took place several times during the Early and Middle Pleistocene stages 1-4 . The Philippines therefore may have had a central role in southward movements into Wallacea, not only of Pleistocene megafauna 7 , but also of archaic hominins.
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