Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: The chronology of the World Heritage Site of Sangiran in Indonesia is crucial for the understanding of human dispersals and settlement in Asia in the Early Pleistocene (before 780,000 years ago). It has been controversial, however, especially regarding the timing of the earliest hominin migration into the Sangiran region. We use a method of combining fission-track and uranium-lead dating and present key ages to calibrate the lower (older) Sangiran hominin-bearing horizons. We conclude that the first appearance datum for the Sangiran hominins is most likely ~1.3 million years ago and less than 1.5 million years ago, which is markedly later than the dates that have been widely accepted for the past two decades.
Source: Science
Institutions: National Museum of Nature and Science, Ochanomizu University, Kyoto Fission-Track Co.ltd (Japan), Earthquake Research Institute, University of Tokyo, The University of Tokyo, Shinshu University, Kobe University Research Center for Inland Seas, Kobe University, Ritsumeikan University, University of Potsdam
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
Awards: Plio-Pleisatocene environmental changes in Java and hominind evolution and dispersion, Chronological reappraisal for the evolutionary interpretation on the fossil hominid remains from the world cultural heritage site of Sangiran, A Development of Teaching Material for Earth Science Education using the Digital Geological Map of Nagano Prefecture, Toward the settlement of controversies over the chronology of the early Javanese hominids, Reconstruction of an active fault earthquake prediction model considering fluctuations in fault activity, A comprehensive re-investigation on the chronology of the Javanese fossil hominids
OpenAlex ID: W2999442647