Nature Communications (May 2022)
A Middle Pleistocene Denisovan molar from the Annamite Chain of northern Laos
- Fabrice Demeter,
- Clément Zanolli,
- Kira E. Westaway,
- Renaud Joannes-Boyau,
- Philippe Duringer,
- Mike W. Morley,
- Frido Welker,
- Patrick L. Rüther,
- Matthew M. Skinner,
- Hugh McColl,
- Charleen Gaunitz,
- Lasse Vinner,
- Tyler E. Dunn,
- Jesper V. Olsen,
- Martin Sikora,
- Jean-Luc Ponche,
- Eric Suzzoni,
- Sébastien Frangeul,
- Quentin Boesch,
- Pierre-Olivier Antoine,
- Lei Pan,
- Song Xing,
- Jian-Xin Zhao,
- Richard M. Bailey,
- Souliphane Boualaphane,
- Phonephanh Sichanthongtip,
- Daovee Sihanam,
- Elise Patole-Edoumba,
- Françoise Aubaile,
- Françoise Crozier,
- Nicolas Bourgon,
- Alexandra Zachwieja,
- Thonglith Luangkhoth,
- Viengkeo Souksavatdy,
- Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy,
- Enrico Cappellini,
- Anne-Marie Bacon,
- Jean-Jacques Hublin,
- Eske Willerslev,
- Laura Shackelford
Affiliations
- Fabrice Demeter
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Clément Zanolli
- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, MCC, PACEA, UMR 5199
- Kira E. Westaway
- ‘Traps’ Luminescence Dating Facility, School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University
- Renaud Joannes-Boyau
- Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry Research Group (GARG), Southern Cross University
- Philippe Duringer
- Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), UMR 7516 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
- Mike W. Morley
- Archaeology, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Flinders University
- Frido Welker
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Patrick L. Rüther
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
- Matthew M. Skinner
- School of Anthropology and Conservation, University of Kent
- Hugh McColl
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Charleen Gaunitz
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Lasse Vinner
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Tyler E. Dunn
- Department of Medical Education, Creighton University School of Medicine
- Jesper V. Olsen
- The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen
- Martin Sikora
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Jean-Luc Ponche
- Université de Strasbourg, Laboratoire Image, Ville Environnement, UMR 7362, UdS CNRS
- Eric Suzzoni
- Spitteurs Pan, Technical Cave Supervision and Exploration
- Sébastien Frangeul
- Spitteurs Pan, Technical Cave Supervision and Exploration
- Quentin Boesch
- Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre, Institut de Physique du Globe de Strasbourg (IPGS), UMR 7516 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg
- Pierre-Olivier Antoine
- Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD
- Lei Pan
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology CAS
- Song Xing
- Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology CAS
- Jian-Xin Zhao
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland
- Richard M. Bailey
- School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford
- Souliphane Boualaphane
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Phonephanh Sichanthongtip
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Daovee Sihanam
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Elise Patole-Edoumba
- Museum d’histoire Naturelle de La Rochelle
- Françoise Aubaile
- Eco-anthropologie (EA), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Université de Paris
- Françoise Crozier
- IRD, DIADE
- Nicolas Bourgon
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Alexandra Zachwieja
- Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Minnesota Medical School Duluth
- Thonglith Luangkhoth
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Viengkeo Souksavatdy
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Thongsa Sayavongkhamdy
- Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism
- Enrico Cappellini
- Section for Evolutionary Genomics, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Anne-Marie Bacon
- Université de Paris, BABEL CNRS UMR
- Jean-Jacques Hublin
- Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Eske Willerslev
- Lundbeck Foundation GeoGenetics Centre, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Laura Shackelford
- Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29923-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 17
Abstract
Evidence for the presence of Homo during the Middle Pleistocene is limited in continental Southeast Asia. Here, the authors report a hominin molar from Tam Ngu Hao 2 (Cobra Cave), dated to 164–131 kyr. They use morphological and paleoproteomic analysis to show that it likely belonged to a female Denisovan.
