New hominin teeth from Stajnia Cave, Poland

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Publication Date

1-5-2021

Publication Title

Journal of Human Evolution

Volume Number

151

Abstract

In this study, we provide a description of the external and internal morphology of the two new hominin teeth discovered in 2010 during the last field research in Stajnia Cave (Częstochowa Upland, Poland, 50°36′58″N, 19°29′04″E) and the genetic data obtained from them. These teeth, together with the three permanent molars attributed to Neanderthals (Urbanowski et al., 2010; Dąbrowski et al., 2013; Nowaczewska et al., 2013), increase the sample of fossil human specimens from this site to five. All these teeth were found in two layers of the D-complex (containing flint artifacts of the Micoquian tradition; Urbanowski et al., 2010): the two new hominin teeth (S16455 and S19415) in layer D1 (in the square meter 7F) overlying layer D2 and the other three teeth in layer D2 (S4619 also in the square meter 7F and S4300 and S5000 in the square meter 10F; Fig. 1; Żarski et al., 2017). The age of layer D1 determined by radiocarbon is >46,000 cal BP (Picin et al., 2020). The faunal assemblage of layer D1 includes more than 60 species of large and small mammals, as well as birds, characteristic of Late Pleistocene steppe-tundra species (Supplementary Online Material [SOM] S1).

Keywords

Neanderthals, Paleoanthropology, Fossils, Teeth, Human remains (Archaeology)

Document Type

Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102929

Language

English

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