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Retud of Ancient Teeth how Modern Human Were
in umatran Rainforet More than 60,000 Year Ago
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iland of orneo in outh at Aia aout , ear ago. However, new evidence pulihed in
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ugget that the had alread arrived in the region at leat , ear ago, far earlier than expected.
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Uing the latet reearch technique, including micro-CT, our team were ale to concluivel how that
the teeth were morphologicall modern human, through detailed tud of the crown morpholog and
internal trait uch a enamel thickne and the junction etween the enamel and dentine.
Furthermore, the application of Uranium-erie, Luminecence and lectron pin Reonance dating
method to the aociated ediment and nd wa ale to place the teeth at an age etween , and
, ear old.
i add to a growing picture that Homo apien wa preading through Aia toward Autralia efore
the date of ~ , ear uuall aigned to the main Out of Africa diperal. We know that earl
modern human were in Irael > , ear ago, and there are controverial claim of modern-
looking teeth from Fuan Cave, China dated to at leat , ear, and a modern human tooth at
Punung in Java dated at more than , ear old. A pre- , ear old preence of modern
human in outh at Aia i alo inferred the recent dating of artefact and pigment at Madjedee
(http://eta.capeia.com/paleoiolog/ / / /human-arrival-in-autralia-dated-at-aout- -
ear-ago) rockhelter in northern Autralia to aout , ear old.
However, if H. apien wa alread widepread in outh at Aia more than , ear ago, thi
raie et other quetion. ee include the apparent urvival of archaic human in uraia and ..
Aia (Neanderthal, Deniovan, H. oreieni, and perhap alo H. erectu) a er thi date, when man
cientit would have expected them to have een upplanted. Perhap the numer of modern human
were mall earl on, the moved fater and in narrow zone (mae coatal?), or their ailit to replace
the other population wa more limited at thi earlier date. Countering thoe uggetion i the fact
that the Lida Ajer human were clearl preent well inland, in challenging rainforet environment,
while the Madjedee earl Autralian were eemingl long-term occupant of the ite, and were
technologicall ophiticated.
ee latet nding ugget that either the genetic caliration etimating the main Out-of-Africa
diperal at aout , ear ago are wrong, or there were indeed earlier migration of modern
human preading far from our African homeland, ut thee were upplanted later diperal.
Perhap the earlier colonier went largel or completel extinct, or the were aored uequent
larger population movement, which overwrote the genetic ignal of their preence.
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