Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos

Demeter, Fabrice; Shackelford, Laura; Westaway, Kira; Barnes, Lydia; Ponche, Jean Luc; Dumoncel, Jean; Sénégas, Frank; Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa; Zhao, Jie; Sichanthongtip, Phonephanh; Patole-Edoumba, Élise; Dunn, Tyler; Zachwieja, Alexandra; Coppens, Yves; Willerslev, Eske; Bacon, Anne Marie

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“…In addition to previous studies that argue for a pre-60 ka presence of modern H. sapiens in eastern Asia (e.g., Bae et al 2014;Liu et al 2010aLiu et al , 2010bMijares et al 2010;Norton and Jin 2009;Shen et al 2002), Liu et al (2015), Martinón-Torres et al (2017), and Demeter et al (2012Demeter et al ( , 2017 strongly promote Fuyan Cave (China) and Tam Pa Ling (Laos) as additional evidence for an early appearance of modern humans in the region. With the increasing hominin fossil record from the region, perhaps this should not come as that much of a surprise, as almost 1 decade ago Norton and Jin (2009:258) noted that "growing evidence suggests that modern humans may have been present in East Asia before~50 kya."…”

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“…Importantly, both papers (Aubert, Brumm, and Taçon 2017;Douka and Higham 2017) emphasize strongly the importance of using a combination of dating techniques and multiple dates from the same layers to narrow the age bracket of various sites. A good example that appears in this volume is Demeter et al (2017), which presents a new human fossil from the lowest stratigraphic layer at Tam Pa Ling, almost 6 m below the surface, that was dated by a combination of methods to possibly as old as 70 ka.…”

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“…Here, Kaifu (2017) and Martinón-Torres et al (2017) provide useful reviews of the Asian hominin fossil records, the former covering the earlier periods until the late Middle Pleistocene, while the latter paper details the Late Pleistocene hominin fossil record from China. Buzhilova, Derevianko, and Shunkov (2017) and Demeter et al (2017) contribute detailed discussions of the important fossils from Central Asia (Teshik Tash, Uzbekistan), Siberia (Denisova and other caves, Russia), and Tam Pa Ling (Laos), particularly in their broader settings. Kaifu (2017) discusses the relationships between the different H. erectus populations from China and Indonesia and determines that a great deal of variation exists.…”

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Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Bae¹,

Douka²,

Petraglia³

2017

Current Anthropology

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The origin and evolution of modern humans continues to be of great interest to the scientific and public communities alike; the field has long been dominated by findings from Europe and Africa. With new discoveries of hominin fossils and archaeological sites, in addition to the application of recent genomic and paleoclimate modeling studies, findings from Asia are serving to revolutionize the field of modern human origins. The identification of Neanderthals and Denisovans in Siberia, for example, along with growing fossil and archaeological evidence for the presence of early modern humans in East and Southeast Asia, much earlier than originally thought, places the spotlight on the evolutionary history of our species in Asia over the last 125,000 years. Exciting and unanticipated new discoveries call for a need to critically reexamine the Asian record. Taking a multidisciplinary perspective, a group of active researchers participated in a week-long Wenner-Gren symposium titled "Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene" (#153) in March 2016. Here we review the major themes and findings emerging from the symposium and discuss avenues to move the field forward.

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Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Bae¹,

Douka²,

Petraglia³

2017

Current Anthropology

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“…Southeast Asia (SEA) is a melting pot of ethnolinguistic diversity shaped by many demographic events, beginning with the initial arrival of anatomically modern humans at least 65 kya [1,2], and including migrations accompanying the spread of agriculture, in particular rice and millet farming, the expansion of the Austronesian (AN) language family, and movements of Tai-Kadai (TK) and Hmong-Mien (HM) speakers [3]. The languages spoken in SEA today belong to five language families: Austro-Asiatic (AA), AN, HM, Sino-Tibetan (ST), and TK.…”

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The paternal and maternal genetic history of Vietnamese populations

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Vietnam exhibits great cultural and linguistic diversity, yet the genetic history of Vietnamese populations remains poorly understood. Previous studies focused mostly on the majority Kinh group, and thus the genetic diversity of the many other groups has not yet been investigated. Here we analyze complete mtDNA genome sequences and~2.3 Mb sequences of the male-specific portion of the Y chromosome from the Kinh and 16 minority populations, encompassing all five language families present in Vietnam. We find highly variable levels of diversity within and between groups that do not correlate with either geography or language family. In particular, the Mang and Sila have undergone recent, independent bottlenecks, while the majority group, Kinh, exhibits low levels of differentiation with other groups. The two Austronesian-speaking groups, Giarai and Ede, show a potential impact of matrilocality on their patterns of variation. Overall, we find that isolation, coupled with limited contact involving some groups, has been the major factor influencing the genetic structure of Vietnamese populations, and that there is substantial genetic diversity that is not represented by the Kinh.

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“…Hominin fossils in MSEA are restricted to heavily worn teeth or bone fragments, predominantly found in cave breccias or other sediments with uncertain depositional histories or equivocal chronologies. Recent fossil discoveries have pushed back the projected arrival of anatomically modern humans (AMH) in the region into Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4, 57 thousand years ago (ka) or earlier (Demeter et al, ; Rabett, ; Shackelford et al, ; Westaway et al, ), while morphological and genetic studies of fossil and modern populations hint at a complex history of interactions between diverse hominin species, including successive waves of modern humans (Bae, Douka, & Petraglia, ; Corny et al, ; Lipson et al, ; Liu et al, ; McColl et al, ; Sikora, ).…”

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The Pleistocene geoarchaeology and geochronology of Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam: Site formation processes and hominin activity in the humid tropics

McAdams

Morley²,

Fu³

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Geoarchaeology

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This paper presents the results of geoarchaeological and geochronological investigations at Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam. Beneath the published, terminal Pleistocene sequence, recent excavations have uncovered a ~5 m stratigraphic sequence containing flaked stone artifacts and sedimentary features that indicate extensive post‐depositional change. As the effects of tropical conditions on Pleistocene cave sediments are poorly resolved, a range of complementary techniques was selected to reconstruct the nature of on‐site sedimentation and occupation, while assessing the taphonomy of archaeological and palaeoecological materials. Our approach incorporates microstratigraphic, geochemical and sedimentological analyses, using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating to estimate the time of sediment deposition in the cave. This case study has broad application to tropical zones worldwide. Sedimentation began in early Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 4, while micromorphologically observed human occupation commenced before 42 thousand years ago (ka). By placing our results within the context of published, high‐resolution regional records of climate, we demonstrate that on‐site rhythms of Pleistocene occupation correlated with environmental changes in the region. During MIS 3, episodic abandonment of the site coincided with periods of drier conditions, while rapid climate fluctuations in MIS 2 corresponded with short‐lived occupation events and a switch to predominantly geogenic deposition in the cave.

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Early Modern Humans from Tam Pà Ling, Laos

Cited by 36 publications

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Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene

The paternal and maternal genetic history of Vietnamese populations

The Pleistocene geoarchaeology and geochronology of Con Moong Cave, North Vietnam: Site formation processes and hominin activity in the humid tropics

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