SciencePrehistoricSoutheast Asia (Laos)medium confidence

Laura Shackelford stated that the Tam Pa Ling skull shows no evidence that the individual's ancestors interbred with Homo erectus.

Notes on verification

Direct quote attribution comes from a single original source (Archaeology magazine) reproduced elsewhere, but the substance is corroborated by peer-reviewed publications co-authored by Shackelford describing fully modern morphology without archaic features. [tier=silver indep_score=0.925 clusters=2 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on the original 2012 PNAS study and its associated press coverage (upstreams: Demeter et al. 2012 PNAS paper 'Anatomically modern human in Southeast Asia (Laos) by 46 ka', Archaeology magazine (Archaeological Institute of America)) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=attributed eligibility=high]

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