Sentences with phrase «erectus site»

ESR dating of tooth enamel from yunxian homo erectus site, China

Homo erectus was the first species to actively control fire; the first good evidence for controlled fire is from a Homo erectus site in Israel and is dated to roughly 780 ka.

Fossil mussel shells excavated more than a century ago at an H. erectus site on the Indonesian island of Java include a shell with engravings of an M shape, two parallel lines and a reversed N shape, the scientists report December 3 in Nature.

Not exact matches

According to the authors of this paper entitled «The fossil teeth of the Peking Man,» there are similarities between the teeth of Zhoukoudian and those of other Chinese archaeological sites from a similar period, but they also highlight the differences from other teeth ascribed either to Homo erectus or other species of hominins from Africa and Europe.

These six teeth belonging to Homo erectus were found in the mid-twentieth century at the Middle Pleistocene archaeological site of Zhoukoudian (Beijing).

Differences in age and sex, says Tattersall, can not account for the wide variation in features such as jaw and brow shape not only among Dmanisi skulls, but also when compared with H. erectus fossils from other sites.

Even if the ancient inhabitants of the Dmanisi site were not early members of H. erectus, there is still a problem: anthropologists have previously thought that no hominins existed outside of Africa as early as 1.85 million years ago.

Java Man was reclassified in the 1950s as Homo erectus and is now called Trinil 2, in reference to the excavation site.

Continued work in this region by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, and an international team of collaborators, has revealed a hominin trace fossil discovery of unprecedented scale for this time period — five distinct sites that preserve a total of 97 tracks created by at least 20 different presumed Homo erectus individuals.

Director of the Chinese archaeological site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing, Jia helped unearth 45 fossils of Homo erectus, a 1.8 - million - year - old hominid that may be a human ancestor.

We learn in the February 27 issue of Science that a team working at Illeret, near Lake Turkana in Kenya, or many years the site of fossil finds, has uncovered two trails with footprints estimated to be 1.5 million years old and likely made by individuals assigned to Homo ergaster / erectus.

It belonged to an adult male of the species Homo erectus, a.k.a. «Upright Man» and is called «Skull 5» because it was the fifth set of hominid remains recovered at the archeological site, Dmanisi, located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia.

Bunney reported in 1986 that a human skeleton dating from c. 280kya in China antedates an erectus skull from Zhoukoudian (the Peking Man site) near Beijing by 50,000 years.

Although we didn't get the chance to visit, around 20 kilometres north of Solo is the Sangiran museum and archeological site, where Java Man (Homo erectus erectus) was discovered.