@article {312816, title = {New Radiometric Ages for the BH-1 Hominin from Balanica (Serbia): Implications for Understanding the Role of the Balkans in Middle Pleistocene Human Evolution}, journal = {PLOS ONEPLOS ONE}, volume = {8}, year = {2013}, month = {2013/02/06}, pages = {e54608 - }, abstract = {

Newly obtained ages, based on electron spin resonance combined with uranium series isotopic analysis, and infrared/post-infrared luminescence dating, provide a minimum age that lies between 397 and 525 ka for the hominin mandible BH-1 from Mala Balanica cave, Serbia. This confirms it as the easternmost hominin specimen in Europe dated to the Middle Pleistocene. Inferences drawn from the morphology of the mandible BH-1 place it outside currently observed variation of European Homo heidelbergensis. The lack of derived Neandertal traits in BH-1 and its contemporary specimens in Southeast Europe, such as Kocaba{\c s}, Vasogliano and Ceprano, coupled with Middle Pleistocene synapomorphies, suggests different evolutionary forces acting in the east of the continent where isolation did not play such an important role during glaciations.

}, doi = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1371\%2Fjournal.pone.0054608}, url = {http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0054608}, author = {Rink, William J. and Mercier, Norbert and Mihailovi{\'c}, Du{\v s}an and Morley, Mike W. and Thompson, Jeroen W. and Roksandic, Mirjana} }