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First direct dating of a presumed Pleistocene hominid from China: AMS radiocarbon age of a femur from the Ordos Plateau |
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| Authors: | Keates Susan G Hodgins Gregory W L Kuzmin Yaroslav V Orlova Lyobov A |
| Affiliation: | a P.O. Box 350, London WC1A 2QP, UK b NSF-Arizona AMS Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0081, USA c Pacific Institute of Geography, Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Radio Street 7, Vladivostok 690041, Russia d Institute of Geology and Mineralogy, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Koptyug Avenue 3, Novosibirsk 630090, Russia |
| Abstract: | Human remains from the Xarusgol Valley, Ordos Plateau, northwestern China, have been considered to date to the Late Pleistocene. In order to ascertain their true age, direct AMS (14)C dating of a femur collected in the early 1920s was conducted. The results demonstrate that the femur is very young, with one sample of 'post-bomb' age and the other sample c. 200 years old. This first direct dating of a Chinese fossil hominid underscores the need to apply the same methodology to other Chinese modern human fossils currently believed to be of Pleistocene age. |
| Keywords: | Hominid fossil femur AMS radiocarbon dating |
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