A one-million-year-old Homo cranium from the Danakil (Afar) Depression of Eritrea

被引：108

作者：

Abbate, E ^{[1
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Albianelli, A

Azzaroli, A

Benvenuti, M

Tesfamariam, B

Bruni, P

Cipriani, N

Clarke, RJ

Ficcarelli, G

Macchiarelli, R

Napoleone, G

Papini, M

Rook, L

Sagri, M

Tecle, TM

Torre, D

Villa, I

机构：

[1] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Sci Terra, I-50121 Florence, Italy

[2] Univ Florence, Sez Geol & Paleontol, Museo Storia Nat, I-50121 Florence, Italy

[3] Eritrea Natl Museum, Asmara, Eritrea

[4] Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Med, Dept Anat Sci, Palaeoanthropol Res Unit, ZA-2193 Johannesburg, South Africa

[5] Museo Nazl Preistor Etnog L Pigorini, Sez Antropol, I-00144 Rome, Italy

[6] Minist Energy Water & Mineral Resources, Dept Mines, Asmara, Eritrea

[7] Univ Bern, Inst Mineral, Abt Isotopengeol, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland

来源：

NATURE | 1998年 / 393卷 / 6684期

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D O I：

10.1038/30954

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

One of the most contentious topics in the study of human evolution is that of the time, place and mode of origin of Homo sapiens(1-3). The discovery in the Northern Danakil (Afar) Depression, Eritrea, of a well-preserved Homo cranium with a mixture of characters typical of H. erectus and H. sapiens contributes significantly to this debate. The cranium was found in a succession of fluvio-deltaic and lacustrine deposits and is associated with a rich mammalian fauna of early to early-middle Pleistocene age. A magnetostratigraphic survey indicates two reversed and two normal magnetozones. The layer in which the cranium was found is near the top of the lower normal magnetozone, which is identified as the Jaramillo subchron. Consequently, the human remains can be dated at similar to 1 million years before present.

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页码：458 / 460

页数：3

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