Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China

doi:10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00132-0

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	Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China
	Zhu, RX; An, ZS; Potts, R; Hoffman, KA
	2003-06
发表期刊	EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷号	61 期号:3-4 页码:341-359
文章类型	Article
摘要	China is a key area for research into human occupation in the Old World after the initial expansion of early humans out of Africa. Reliable age determinations are pivotal for assessing the patterns of human evolution and dispersal in this region. This paper reviews magnetostratigraphic studies of some early Pleistocene strata bearing hominin remains and/or artifact stone tools from northern to southern China. The quality and reliability of the paleomagnetic dates are also evaluated. New magnetostratigraphic results for the Xihoudu Paleolithic site in north-central China are also presented. Among the few hominin or Paleolithic sites in China from the early Pleistocene, five have been well investigated. Three of these are in northern China at Xiaochangliang, Donggutuo and Gongwangling; the remaining two in southern China at Longgupo and Yuanmou. Considerable progress has been made during the past three decades towards paleomagnetically dating these sites. Indeed, the age estimates at Xiaochangliang and Gongwangling have been widely accepted. Magnetostratigraphic consensus about the age of the Donggutuo site has also been reached. However, the age determination for the two sites in southern China is still contested. The integration of rock-magnetic stratigraphy with magnetic polarity stratigraphy has resulted in a determined age of 1.36 Ma for a stone tool-containing layer of lacustrine sediments at the Xiaochangliang site in the Nihewan Basin. Lithostratigraphic constraints have significantly contributed to determining the age of Lantian Homo erectus at Gongwangling, which occurred in a loess-paleosol sequence of the southern Loess Plateau. Its age, paleomagnetically derived, is about 1.15 Ma. These two paleomagnetic ages suggest an expansion and flourishing of human groups from northern to north-central China during the early Pleistocene. This suggestion has been reinforced by our new magnetostratigraphic age estimate of about 1.27 Ma for the Xihoudu site as will be presented in this paper. However, more work is needed for the age determinations of the hominin-bearing strata at the Longgupo and Yuanmou sites in southern China. Finally, we stress that it is necessary to combine biostratigraphy, lithostratigraphy and rock-magnetic stratigraphy with the traditional magnetic polarity stratigraphy in order to obtain reliable age determinations for strata bearing hominin remains or stone artifacts. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	magnetic stratigraphy China human fossil remains stone artifacts early Pleistocene paleolithic
学科领域	Geology
DOI	10.1016/S0012-8252(02)00132-0
关键词[WOS]	PALEOMAGNETIC DATES ; EARLY HOMO ; HOMINID ; AGE ; DMANISI ; GEORGIA ; BASIN ; SITES ; ASIA ; INDONESIA
收录类别	SCI ; SCIE
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000183394400004
出版者	ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
引用统计	被引频次：128[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.ieecas.cn/handle/361006/11868
专题	黄土与第四纪地质国家重点实验室（1985-2004）
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhu, RX,An, ZS,Potts, R,et al. Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China[J]. EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS,2003,61(3-4):341-359.
APA	Zhu, RX,An, ZS,Potts, R,&Hoffman, KA.(2003).Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China.EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS,61(3-4),341-359.
MLA	Zhu, RX,et al."Magnetostratigraphic dating of early humans in China".EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS 61.3-4(2003):341-359.