James B. Paces
Warren D. Sharp
2018
<p><span>Hershkovitz </span><i>et al</i><span>. (Reports, 26 January 2018, p. 456) interpreted the Misliya-1 fossil maxilla as evidence of the earliest known anatomically modern human outside Africa. However, the fossil’s reported age of 177,000 to 194,000 years relies on flawed interpretations of uranium-series data. We contend that those data support a minimum age of no more than ~60,000 to 70,000 years.</span></p>
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Comment on “The earliest modern humans outside Africa”
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