@article {308542,
	title = {Early modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia: fossil evidence from Tam Pa Ling, Laos.},
	journal = {PLoS One},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2015},
	note = {http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0121193},
	month = {2015},
	pages = {e0121193},
	abstract = {<p>Little is known about the timing of modern human emergence and occupation in Eastern Eurasia. However a rapid migration out of Africa into Southeast Asia by at least 60 ka is supported by archaeological, paleogenetic and paleoanthropological data. Recent discoveries in Laos, a modern human cranium (TPL1) from Tam Pa Ling{\textquoteright}s cave, provided the first evidence for the presence of early modern humans in mainland Southeast Asia by 63-46 ka. In the current study, a complete human mandible representing a second individual, TPL 2, is described using discrete traits and geometric morphometrics with an emphasis on determining its population affinity. The TPL2 mandible has a chin and other discrete traits consistent with early modern humans, but it retains a robust lateral corpus and internal corporal morphology typical of archaic humans across the Old World. The mosaic morphology of TPL2 and the fully modern human morphology of TPL1 suggest that a large range of morphological variation was present in early modern human populations residing in the eastern Eurasia by MIS 3.</p>},
	keywords = {Anthropology, Physical, Fossils, Humans, Laos, Mandible},
	issn = {1932-6203},
	doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0121193},
	url = {http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25849125},
	author = {Demeter, Fabrice and Shackelford, Laura and Westaway, Kira and Duringer, Philippe and Bacon, Anne-Marie and Ponche, Jean-Luc and Wu, Xiujie and Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa and Zhao, Jian-xin and Barnes, Lani and Boyon, Marc and Sichanthongtip, Phonephanh and S{\'e}n{\'e}gas, Frank and Karpoff, Anne-Marie and Patole-Edoumba, Elise and Coppens, Yves and Braga, Jos{\'e}}
}
