Genetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing site

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dc.citation.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.03.014en_ZA
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dc.contributor.authorLombard, Marlize
dc.contributor.authorMalmstrom, Helena
dc.contributor.authorSchlebusch, Carina Maria
dc.contributor.authorSvensson, Emma M.
dc.contributor.authorGunther, Torsten
dc.contributor.authorCoutinho, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorEdlund, Hanna
dc.contributor.authorZipfel, Bernhard
dc.contributor.authorJakobsson, Mattias
dc.date.accessioned2022-02-22T13:05:51Z
dc.date.available2022-02-22T13:05:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.description.abstractWe have sampled five out of the eleven previously identified human specimens and some faunal remains from the Plovers Lake site in the Cradle of Humankind, South Africa, for ancient DNA. We were successful in obtaining positive results for three of the human individuals and three ‘buffalo’ teeth. Based on ages obtained for flowstone and one bovid tooth, the site was interpreted previously as a hominin-bearing Middle Stone Age site of more than 60 000 years old. Our work, however, revealed that not all the material accumulated during the Pleistocene. Instead, the sampled humans and bovids most likely represent a Bantu-speaking Iron Age population (mtDNA haplogroup L3d) and their Nguni cattle. Newly obtained radiocarbon dates confirmed that these remains are probably no older than the last 500 years bp. This study demonstrates the usefulness of inter-disciplinary investigation into the human past, and the depositional and stratigraphic complexities that researchers in the Cradle of Humankind need to contend with before interpreting their assemblages.en_ZA
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dc.identifier.issn0047-2484
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/32750
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dc.journal.titleJournal of Human Evolutionen_ZA
dc.journal.volume131en_ZA
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherElsevieren_ZA
dc.schoolEvolutionary Studies Institute and School of Geosciencesen_ZA
dc.subjectPlovers lakeen_ZA
dc.subjectAncient DNAen_ZA
dc.subjectHominin-bearing siteen_ZA
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectMiddle Stone Ageen_ZA
dc.subjectC14 datingen_ZA
dc.titleGenetic data and radiocarbon dating question Plovers Lake as a Middle Stone Age hominin-bearing siteen_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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