Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo

Westaway, K. E., Morwood, M. J., Roberts, R. G., Rokus, A. D., Zhao, J. X., Storm, P., Aziz, F., van den Bergh, G., Hadi, P., Jatmiko and de Vos, J. (2007) Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo. Journal of Human Evolution, 53 6: 709-717.


Author Westaway, K. E.
Morwood, M. J.
Roberts, R. G.
Rokus, A. D.
Zhao, J. X.
Storm, P.
Aziz, F.
van den Bergh, G.
Hadi, P.
Jatmiko
de Vos, J.
Title Age and biostratigraphic significance of the Punung Rainforest Fauna, East Java, Indonesia, and implications for Pongo and Homo
Journal name Journal of Human Evolution  (ERA 2012 Listed)    (ERA 2010 Rank C)   Check publisher's open access policy
Publication date 2007-12
Sub-type Article
Year available 2007
DOI 10.1016/j.jhevol.2007.06.002
Volume number 53
Issue number 6
ISSN 0047-2484; 1095-8606
Start page 709
End page 717
Total pages 9
Place of publication London ; New York
Publisher Academic Press
Language eng
Subject 06 Biological Sciences
0603 Evolutionary Biology
04 Earth Sciences
0403 Geology
Abstract The Punung Fauna is a key component in the biostratigraphic sequence of Java. It represents the most significant faunal turnover on the island in the last 1.5 million years, when Stegodon and other archaic mammal species characteristic of earlier Faunal stages were replaced by a fully modern fauna that included rainforest-dependent species such as Pongo pygmaeus (orangutan). Here, we report the first numerical ages for the Punung Fauna obtained by luminescence and uranium-series dating of the fossil-bearing deposits and associated flowstones. The Punung Fauna contained in the dated breccia is of early Last Interglacial age (between 128 ± 15 and 118 ± 3 ka). This result has implications for the age of the preceding Ngandong Fauna, including Homo erectus remains found in the Ngandong Terrace, and for the timing of Homo sapiens arrival in Southeast Asia, in view of claims for a modern human tooth associated with the Punung breccia.
Keyword Cave breccia
Deep-sea Sediments
Faunal turnover
Geochronology
Human evolution
Paleoenvironmental change
Q-Index Code C1

 
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