caa a22 4500 388056363 CHVBK 20180307125107.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0003598X00086919 doi S0003598X00086919 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0003598X00086919 A Middle Palaeolithic burial of a modern human at Taramsa Hill, Egypt [Elektronische Daten] Discussion about a possible African origin of modern humans is hampered by the lack of Late Pleistocene skeletal material from the Nile valley, the likely passage-way from East Africa to Asia and Europe. Here we report the discovery of a burial of an anatomically modern child from southern Egypt. Its clear relation with Middle Palaeolithic chert extraction activities and a series of OSL dates, from correlative aeolian sands, suggests an age between 49,800 and 80,400 years ago, with a mean age of 55,000. Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1998 Egypt nationallicence early modern human nationallicence Middle Palaeolithic nationallicence burial nationallicence Vermeersch P. M. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be Paulissen E. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be Van Peer P. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be Stokes S. School of Geography, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England Charlier C. Centre for Human Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium Stringer C. Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England Lindsay W. Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 475-484 0003-598X 72:277<475 1998 72 AQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086919 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00086919 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vermeersch P. M. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Paulissen E. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Van Peer P. Instituut voor Aardwetenschappen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Redingenstraat 16, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium. pierre.vermeersch@geo.kuleuven.ac.be NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stokes S. School of Geography, Research Laboratory for Archaeology & the History of Art, Oxford University, 6 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QJ, England NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Charlier C. Centre for Human Genetics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Herestraat 49, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stringer C. Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Lindsay W. Department of Palaeontology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, England NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Antiquity Cambridge University Press 72/277(1998-09), 475-484 0003-598X 72:277<475 1998 72 AQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge