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Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with Al-26/Be-10 burial dating | |
Shen, Guanjun1; Gao, Xing2; Gao, Bin1; Granger, Darryl E.3; [email protected]; [email protected] | |
2009-03-12 | |
发表期刊 | NATURE |
ISSN | 0028-0836 |
卷号 | 458期号:7235页码:198-200 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | The age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus, commonly known as 'Peking Man', has long been pursued, but has remained problematic owing to the lack of suitable dating methods(1-7). Here we report cosmogenic Al-26/Be-10 burial dating of quartz sediments and artefacts from the lower strata of Locality 1 in the southwestern suburb of Beijing, China, where early representatives of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus were discovered. This study marks the first radioisotopic dating of any early hominin site in China beyond the range of mass spectrometric U-series dating. The weighted mean of six meaningful age measurements, 0.77 +/- 0.08 million years (Myr, mean +/- s.e.m.), provides the best age estimate for lower cultural layers 7-10. Together with previously reported U-series dating of speleothem calcite(3) and palaeomagnetic stratigraphy(4), as well as sedimentological considerations(8,9), these layers may be further correlated to S6-S7 in Chinese loess stratigraphy or marine isotope stages (MIS) 17-19, in the range of similar to 0.68 to 0.78 Myr ago. These ages are substantially older than previously supposed and may imply early hominin's presence at the site in northern China through a relatively mild glacial period corresponding to MIS 18. |
关键词 | Middle Pleistocene Human-evolution China Site Calibration Locality-1 Chronology Loess |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology |
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关键词[WOS] | MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; HUMAN-EVOLUTION ; CHINA ; SITE ; CALIBRATION ; LOCALITY-1 ; CHRONOLOGY ; LOESS |
收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI |
语种 | 英语 |
WOS研究方向 | Science & Technology - Other Topics |
WOS类目 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000264059700042 |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4749 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) 古人类及旧石器研究室 |
通讯作者 | [email protected]; [email protected] |
作者单位 | 1.Nanjing Normal Univ, Coll Geog Sci, Nanjing 210046, Jiangsu, Peoples R China 2.Acad Sinica, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Purdue Univ, Dept Earth & Atmospher Sci, W Lafayette, IN 47907 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shen, Guanjun,Gao, Xing,Gao, Bin,et al. Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with Al-26/Be-10 burial dating[J]. NATURE,2009,458(7235):198-200. |
APA | Shen, Guanjun,Gao, Xing,Gao, Bin,Granger, Darryl E.,[email protected],[email protected].(2009).Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with Al-26/Be-10 burial dating.NATURE,458(7235),198-200. |
MLA | Shen, Guanjun,et al."Age of Zhoukoudian Homo erectus determined with Al-26/Be-10 burial dating".NATURE 458.7235(2009):198-200. |
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