Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam)

Fabrice Demeter; Anne-Marie Bacon; Kim Thuy Nguyen; The Long Vu; Philippe Duringer; Stéphane Roussé; Yves Coppens; Hirofumi Matsumura; Yukio Dodo; Mai Huong Nguyen; Anezaki Tomoko

doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.12.004

Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam)

J Hum Evol. 2005 Apr;48(4):393-402. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.12.004.

Authors

Fabrice Demeter¹, Anne-Marie Bacon, Kim Thuy Nguyen, The Long Vu, Philippe Duringer, Stéphane Roussé, Yves Coppens, Hirofumi Matsumura, Yukio Dodo, Mai Huong Nguyen, Anezaki Tomoko

Affiliation

¹ Laboratoire de Paléoanthropologie et Préhistoire, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcellin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France. fabrice.demeter@college-de-france.fr

PMID: 15788185
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.12.004

Abstract

In November 2002, during the second season of work by a Vietnamese-French-Japanese team, we discovered a human molar and a fragment of an occipital bone in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Bacon et al., Geobios. 37 (2004) 305). The layer from which this material comes is the same as that in which a human lower molar was found in 2001. Both molars can be attributed to archaic Homo, and both exhibit archaic and modern traits.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Anthropology, Physical
Fossils
Hominidae / anatomy & histology*
Humans
Molar / anatomy & histology*
Skull / anatomy & histology*
Vietnam