Provider: Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic TY - JOUR JO - Anthropologie (Brno) TI - New light on the earliest occupation of east Asia AU - Olsem JW Y1 - 1999 VL - 37 IS - 1 PB - Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic SN - 0323-1119 SP - 89 EP - 96 KW - Homo erectus KW - Hominids KW - Human evolution KW - Prehistoric migrations KW - Palaeoanthropology N2 - N2 - This paper critically examines recent paleoanthropological evidence for hominid colonization of Eastern Eurasia. After discussing new archaeological, geological, and morphological evidence for the earliest human presence in China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and Siberia, and documenting its surprisingly great antiquity, it suggests that the time has come to reconsider the hypothesis about the Asian roots of Homo erectus. ER -