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Thibaut Devièse1, Diyendo Massilani2, Seonbok Yi3, Daniel Comeskey4, Sarah Nagel5, Birgit Nickel5, Erika Ribechini6, Jungeun Lee3, Damdinsuren Tseveendorj7, Byambaa Gunchinsuren7, Matthias Meyer5, Svante Pääbo5, Tom Higham4.
Abstract
A skullcap found in the Salkhit Valley in northeast Mongolia is, to our knowledge, the only Pleistocene hominin fossil found in the country. It was initially described as an individual with possible archaic affinities, but its ancestry has been debated since the discovery. Here, we determine the age of the Salkhit skull by compound-specific radiocarbon dating of hydroxyproline to 34,950-33,900 Cal. BP (at 95% probability), placing the Salkhit individual in the Early Upper Paleolithic period. We reconstruct the complete mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) of the specimen. It falls within a group of modern human mtDNAs (haplogroup N) that is widespread in Eurasia today. The results now place the specimen into its proper chronometric and biological context and allow us to begin integrating it with other evidence for the human occupation of this region during the Paleolithic, as well as wider Pleistocene sequences across Eurasia.Entities:
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Year: 2019 PMID： 30700710 PMCID： PMC6353915 DOI： 10.1038/s41467-018-08018-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nat Commun ISSN： 2041-1723 Impact factor: 14.919