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]
Sources
- Digs & Discoveries - Settling Southeast Asia - Archaeology Magazine - November/December 2012 (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://factsanddetails.com/asian/cat62/sub406/entry-2811.html (corroboration)
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3437904 (corroboration)
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4388508/ (corroboration)