@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 = {<p>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.</p>
},
	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}
}
