The first study of erratic boulder exposure ages in the Grove Mountains, interior Antarctica, indicates the two erratic boulders （060131-1 and 060131-2, collected from a typical nunataks, Zakharoff Ridge in the Grove...The first study of erratic boulder exposure ages in the Grove Mountains, interior Antarctica, indicates the two erratic boulders （060131-1 and 060131-2, collected from a typical nunataks, Zakharoff Ridge in the Grove Mountains） have 10 Be minimum exposure ages of 1.24 ±0. 11 Ma, 1.37 ±0. 12 Ma, and ^26Al ages of 0.90 ±0.12 Ma,0.44 ±0.04 Ma, respectively. Meanwhile, another erratic boulder sample 060131-4, coming from vicinal ice surface, has ^10Be and ^26Al minimum exposure ages of 0.47 ±0.3 Ma and 0. 44 ±0.04 Ma, respectively. The exposure ages of the three erratic boulders are nearly similar to the bedrocks with the similar elevation. Thus, using the technique of in situ produced terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides, the ice sheet evolution histories in the Grove Mountains reflected by erratic boulder and bedrock exposure ages are basically consistent.展开更多
Three-dimensional mapping and section work undertaken by us in 2008 have identified 11 stratigraphic units at Maludong site.AMS radiocarbon dating of charcoal established an accurate and internally consistent age prof...Three-dimensional mapping and section work undertaken by us in 2008 have identified 11 stratigraphic units at Maludong site.AMS radiocarbon dating of charcoal established an accurate and internally consistent age profile for the sequence of 17.8±0.2 ka to 13.2±0.1 ka.Archaeomagnetic analysis showed changes in externally derived pedogenically enhanced material consistent with a warming in climate between the cold period of Henrich Event 1 and the B lling-Aller d interstadial.Human remains recovered during the 1989 excavation were derived from a deposit dating to this interstadial,or between 14.3±0.3 ka and 13.5±0.1 ka.Anthropogenic features,including burnt rocks,baked sediment and thick charcoal and ash layers,were identified and examined through archaeomagnetic analysis.Two monkey fossils are described here,one of them being reassigned from Macaca robustus to M.aff.M.assamensis.They confirm the young age of the site and also show signs of anthropogenic alteration in the form of burning.Additional human cranial remains are reported for the first time and new data are provided for some specimens described previously.A range of new features is identified that strengthen the affinities of the Maludong remains to archaic humans.The presence of this globally unique mosaic of archaic and modern features raises important questions about human evolutionary history in East Asia during the Late Upper Pleistocene.展开更多
基金supported by the National Science Fund of China (No.40631004 and 40506003)the Chinese Polar Science Strategy Research Fund (No.20070219)
文摘The first study of erratic boulder exposure ages in the Grove Mountains, interior Antarctica, indicates the two erratic boulders （060131-1 and 060131-2, collected from a typical nunataks, Zakharoff Ridge in the Grove Mountains） have 10 Be minimum exposure ages of 1.24 ±0. 11 Ma, 1.37 ±0. 12 Ma, and ^26Al ages of 0.90 ±0.12 Ma,0.44 ±0.04 Ma, respectively. Meanwhile, another erratic boulder sample 060131-4, coming from vicinal ice surface, has ^10Be and ^26Al minimum exposure ages of 0.47 ±0.3 Ma and 0. 44 ±0.04 Ma, respectively. The exposure ages of the three erratic boulders are nearly similar to the bedrocks with the similar elevation. Thus, using the technique of in situ produced terrestrial cosmogenic nuclides, the ice sheet evolution histories in the Grove Mountains reflected by erratic boulder and bedrock exposure ages are basically consistent.
基金the Australian Research Council (DP0877603), the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the University of New South Wales and Griffith University for funding this research
文摘Three-dimensional mapping and section work undertaken by us in 2008 have identified 11 stratigraphic units at Maludong site.AMS radiocarbon dating of charcoal established an accurate and internally consistent age profile for the sequence of 17.8±0.2 ka to 13.2±0.1 ka.Archaeomagnetic analysis showed changes in externally derived pedogenically enhanced material consistent with a warming in climate between the cold period of Henrich Event 1 and the B lling-Aller d interstadial.Human remains recovered during the 1989 excavation were derived from a deposit dating to this interstadial,or between 14.3±0.3 ka and 13.5±0.1 ka.Anthropogenic features,including burnt rocks,baked sediment and thick charcoal and ash layers,were identified and examined through archaeomagnetic analysis.Two monkey fossils are described here,one of them being reassigned from Macaca robustus to M.aff.M.assamensis.They confirm the young age of the site and also show signs of anthropogenic alteration in the form of burning.Additional human cranial remains are reported for the first time and new data are provided for some specimens described previously.A range of new features is identified that strengthen the affinities of the Maludong remains to archaic humans.The presence of this globally unique mosaic of archaic and modern features raises important questions about human evolutionary history in East Asia during the Late Upper Pleistocene.
