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PRÉSENTATION
Seminar: Yaroslav V. KUZMIN
29 MARS 19
Speaker:Dr. Yaroslav V. KUZMIN (Senior Research Fellow, Siberian
Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia)


Date : Friday, March 29 2019. 12:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 201, the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University

Abstract:
In Asia (Levant; Siberia and the neighbouring parts of Northeast Asia; and
East and Southeast Asia), finds of skeletal remains of Pleistocene
modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) are quite rare compared to Europe.
In order to understand the patterns of their chronology, direct age
determinations should be taken into account as the most reliable age
estimates. In Siberia, the dates on modern humans are in the range of
ca. 41,000–13,800 uncalibrated 14C years (BP). In China, the single
direct date on a Pleistocene modern human is ca. 34,400 BP, while in
Japan the dates are of ca. 20,400–14,200 BP. In Southeast Asia, the age
of the oldest modern humans is ca. 50,000–26,000 BP and possibly older.
In Levant, the earliest modern humans are now dated to ca.180,000–190,000 years ago.
Without an increase of direct ages for Pleistocene modern humans, especially in China, it would be impossible to create a reliable chronology of them in Asia. So far, the claims of southern Chinese H. s. sapiens to be of ca. 80,000–100,000 years old are not substantiated.

Organizers :
- EFEO Taipei Center
- the Department of Anthropology, National Taiwan University




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