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SUBMITTER: Demeter F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3437904 | biostudies-other | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20120820 36
Uncertainties surround the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in East and Southeast Asia. Although genetic and archeological data indicate a rapid migration out of Africa and into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka, mainland Southeast Asia is notable for its absence of fossil evidence for early modern human occupation. Here we report on a modern human cranium from Tam Pa Ling, Laos, which was recovered from a secure stratigraphic context. Radiocarbon and luminescence dating of the sur ...[more]