Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam).
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.
Demeter
Fabrice
F
Laboratoire de Paléoanthropologie et Préhistoire, Collège de France, 11 Place Marcellin Berthelot, 75005 Paris, France. fabrice.demeter@college-de-france.fr
Bacon
Anne-Marie
AM
Nguyen
Kim Thuy
KT
Vu
The Long
TL
Duringer
Philippe
P
Roussé
Stéphane
S
Coppens
Yves
Y
Matsumura
Hirofumi
H
Dodo
Yukio
Y
Nguyen
Mai Huong
MH
Tomoko
Anezaki
A
D000818:Animals; D000885:Anthropology, Physical; D005580:Fossils; D015186:Hominidae / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D006801:Humans; D008963:Molar / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D012886:Skull / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D014744:Vietnam