A Late Pleistocene modern human fossil from the Gunang Cave, Danyang county in Korea.

The unique features uncovered at the Gunang cave in Danyang county, South Korea, suggests the living conditions of modern humans era, way back in the late Late Pleistocene period. Examples of these suggestions include the morphology of modern human bones, archaeological and faunal assemblages, and the signs of animals that were hunted nearby. Mammalian bone remnants mainly originated from the cervid, and human bone remains were dated between 40,900 and 44,900cal-yrBP. This paper focuses on the first metatarsal (MT1) and widely held belief that the MT1 from the Gunang cave is one of the oldest remnants of the modern human bones found in South Korea. As such, the species Homo sapiens , scattered around the Gunang cave in Danyang county, are associated with those from the Suyanggae Locality 6, as the typical modern human of South Korea, since about 43,000 yrBP. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]