On the misidentification and unreliable context of the new “human teeth” from Fuyan Cave (China)

作者：María Martinón‐Torres, Yanjun Cai, Haowen Tong, Shuwen Pei, Song Xing, José Marı́a Bermúdez de Castro, Xiujie Wu, Wu Liu · 发表于：Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 年份：2021 · DOI：10.1073/pnas.2102961118 · 被引用次数：26 · 研究领域：Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology、Archaeology and ancient environmental studies、Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies

Sun et al. (1) question the Late Pleistocene chronologies of five hominin sites from southern China, including Fuyan Cave with 47 Homo sapiens teeth (2), and suggest they belong to the Holocene. Here we question the validity of their study, based on the uncertain origin and taxonomical identification of the two “human” specimens from Fuyan (FY-HT-1 and FY-HT-2) and the quality standards of their ancient DNA (aDNA) and 14C analysis. [↵][1]2To whom correspondence may be addressed. Email: maria.martinon{at}cenieh.es or yanjun_cai{at}xjtu.edu.cn. [1]: #xref-corresp-1-1