Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP), Instituto de Geociências e Ciências Exatas, Rio Claro, Brazil.
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Instituto de Estudos Avançados, São Paulo, Brazil.
Evol Anthropol. 2021 Mar;30(2):122-127. doi: 10.1002/evan.21863. Epub 2020 Sep 7.
Recent discoveries of stone tools from Jordan (2.5 Ma) and China (2.1 Ma) document hominin presence in Asia at the beginning of the Pleistocene, well before the conventional Dmanisi datum at 1.8 Ma. Although no fossil hominins documenting this earliest Out of Africa phase have been found, on chronological grounds a pre-Homo erectus hominin must be considered the most likely maker of those artifacts. If so, this sheds new light on at least two disputed subjects in paleoanthropology, namely the remarkable variation among the five Dmanisi skulls, and the ancestry of Homo floresiensis.
最近在约旦（250 万年前）和中国（210 万年前）发现的石器记录了人类在更新世早期就已经出现在亚洲，远早于传统的 180 万年前的迪马纳西（Dmanisi）数据。虽然没有发现记录这一最早的走出非洲阶段的化石人类，但根据年代学，一个直立人之前的人类必须被认为是这些工具的最有可能的制造者。如果是这样，这至少为古人类学中的两个有争议的主题提供了新的视角，即迪马纳西的五个头骨之间显著的变异，以及弗洛里斯人（ Homo floresiensis ）的祖先。
