New progress in understanding the origins of modern humans in China

New fossils from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco and the pan-African origin of Homo sapiens

(2017) Jean-Jacques Hublin et al.   NATURE

Late Pleistocene archaic human crania from Xuchang, China

(2017) Zhan-Yang Li et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient gene flow from early modern humans into Eastern Neanderthals

(2016) Martin Kuhlwilm et al.   NATURE

Revised stratigraphy and chronology for Homo floresiensis at Liang Bua in Indonesia

(2016) Thomas Sutikna et al.   NATURE

New Middle Pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)

(2016) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Excavating Neandertal and Denisovan DNA from the genomes of Melanesian individuals

(2016) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

The broad-spectrum adaptations of hominins in the later period of Late Pleistocene of China—Perspectives from the zooarchaeological studies

(2016) ShuangQuan Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Diet breadth and mortality patterns from Laoya Cave: A primary profile of MIS 3/2 hunting strategies in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, southwest China

(2016) XiaoMin Wang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Technology diffusion and population migration reflected in blade technologies in northern China in the Late Pleistocene

(2016) Feng Li et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Taphonomic and paleoenvironmental issues of the Pleistocene loessic Paleolithic sites in the Qinling Mountains, central China

(2016) SheJiang Wang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

An early modern human from Romania with a recent Neanderthal ancestor

(2015) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

(2015) Wu Liu et al.   NATURE

Y-chromosome diversity suggests southern origin and Paleolithic backwave migration of Austro-Asiatic speakers from eastern Asia to the Indian subcontinent

(2015) Xiaoming Zhang et al.   Scientific Reports

Homo erectus at Trinil on Java used shells for tool production and engraving

(2014) Josephine C. A. Joordens et al.   NATURE

The genomic landscape of Neanderthal ancestry in present-day humans

(2014) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   NATURE

Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

(2014) Qiaomei Fu et al.   NATURE

A rock engraving made by Neanderthals in Gibraltar

(2014) Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Temporal labyrinths of eastern Eurasian Pleistocene humans

(2014) X.-J. Wu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Modern human teeth from Late Pleistocene Luna Cave (Guangxi, China)

(2014) Christopher J. Bae et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Blade production of Shuidonggou Locality1 (Northwest China): A technological perspective

(2014) Fei Peng et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

Resurrecting Surviving Neandertal Lineages from Modern Human Genomes

(2014) B. Vernot et al.   SCIENCE

Evolution of early Homo: An integrated biological perspective

(2014) S. C. Anton et al.   SCIENCE

Why we are not all multiregionalists now

(2014) Chris Stringer   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Heat treatment and associated early modern human behaviors in the Late Paleolithic at the Shuidonggou site

(2013) ZhenYu Zhou et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China

(2013) Wu Liu et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Re-examination of the dates of large blade technology in China: A comparison of Shuidonggou Locality 1 and Locality 2

(2013) Feng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

DNA analysis of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave, China

(2013) Q. Fu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo

(2013) D. Lordkipanidze et al.   SCIENCE

Zooarchaeological perspective on the Broad Spectrum Revolution in the Pleistocene-Holocene transitional period, with evidence from Shuidonggou Locality 12, China

(2013) Yue Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

An engraved artifact from Shuidonggou, an Early Late Paleolithic Site in Northwest China

(2012) Fei Peng et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians

(2012) Darren Curnoe et al.   PLoS One

Radiocarbon dates from the Grotte du Renne and Saint-Cesaire support a Neandertal origin for the Chatelperronian

(2012) J.-J. Hublin et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

(2012) M. Meyer et al.   SCIENCE

Skeletal element distributions of the large herbivores from the Lingjing site, Henan Province, China

(2012) ShuangQuan Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

The Date of Interbreeding between Neandertals and Modern Humans

(2012) Sriram Sankararaman et al.   PLoS Genetics

Denisova Admixture and the First Modern Human Dispersals into Southeast Asia and Oceania

(2011) David Reich et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Spatial analysis of intra-site use at a Late Paleolithic site at Shuidonggou, Northwest China

(2011) Ying Guan et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Evolution, revolution or saltation scenario for the emergence of modern cultures?

(2011) F. d'Errico et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Middle pleistocene dental remains from Qesem Cave (Israel)

(2010) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Who were the makers of the Châtelperronian culture?

(2010) Ofer Bar-Yosef et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

The complete mitochondrial DNA genome of an unknown hominin from southern Siberia

(2010) Johannes Krause et al.   NATURE

Genetic history of an archaic hominin group from Denisova Cave in Siberia

(2010) David Reich et al.   NATURE

Human remains from Zhirendong, South China, and modern human emergence in East Asia

(2010) W. Liu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A Draft Sequence of the Neandertal Genome

(2010) R. E. Green et al.   SCIENCE

Revisiting the origin of modern humans in China and its implications for global human evolution

(2010) Xing Gao et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Cut marks and terminal Pleistocene hominids in the Ma’anshan site: Evidence for meat-eating

(2009) Yue Zhang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Mortality profiles of the large herbivores from the Lingjing Xuchang Man Site, Henan Province and the early emergence of the modern human behaviors in East Asia

(2009) ShuangQuan Zhang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

The Homo sapiens Cave hominin site of Mulan Mountain, Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo, Guangxi with emphasis on its age

(2009) ChangZhu Jin et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Archaeological study of ostrich eggshell beads collected from SDG site

(2009) ChunXue Wang et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Progress in the stratigraphy and geochronology of the Shuidonggou site, Ningxia, North China

(2009) DeCheng Liu et al.   CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN

Engraved ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa

(2009) Christopher S. Henshilwood et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION

Additional evidence on the use of personal ornaments in the Middle Paleolithic of North Africa

(2009) F. d'Errico et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Implications for complex cognition from the hafting of tools with compound adhesives in the Middle Stone Age, South Africa

(2009) L. Wadley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A zooarchaeological study of bone assemblages from the Ma’anshan Paleolithic site

(2009) Yue Zhang et al.   Science China-Earth Sciences

Big brains, small worlds: material culture and the evolution of the mind

(2008) F. Coward et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES