A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt

Antiquity - Tập 72 Số 277 - Trang 475-484 - 1998
Pierre Vermeersch1, Étienne Paulissen1, Philip Van Peer1, Stephen Stokes2, Christine Charlier3,4, Chris Stringer5, W. Lauder Lindsay5
1Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
2School of Geography, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England
3Anthropologisches Insitut der Universität Kiel, Olsenhausenstraße 40–60, D-24118 Kiel, Germany
4Centre for Human Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium
5Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England

Tóm tắt

Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age between 49,800 and 80,400 years ago, with a mean age of 55,000.

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