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Out of African and Dispersal into Eurasia by Hominoids from the Paleontological Perspective.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15570193
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Anthropology
Research InstitutionKyoto University

Principal Investigator

KUNIMATSU Y  Kyoto University, Primate Research Institute, Assistant Professor, 霊長類研究所, 助手 (80243111)

Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥1,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000)
Fiscal Year 2003: ¥1,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,500,000)
KeywordsHominoidea / Miocene / Africa / Eurasia / Ape / Kenya / Thailand / Fossil / 東南アジア / 更新世 / 東アフリカ / タイ王国 / オランウータン / Nacholapithecus kerioi / 霊長類
Research Abstract

This study has focused on the evolution of the Miocene hominoids as precursors of humans, especially in those ages when they went out of Africa and dispersed into Eurasia. In Africa, the head investigator (Y.Kunimatsu) has conducted his research on the Miocene fossil primates in Kenya. He extended his previous research further, and analyzed fossils of hominoids and cercopithecoids from the early Middle Miocene of East Africa.
In Eurasia, the study emphasized the research of Asian Miocene hominoid fossils. Previously known Miocene fossil hominoids in Asia are mainly Sivapithecus from India and Pakistan, and Lufengpithecus from Yunnan Province, southwestern China. Although extant Asian hominoids like gibbons and orangutans live in Southeast Asia, studies of fossil hominoids have been rare in this region. Recently, however, new hominoid fossils have been recovered from the Miocene of Thailand, and fossil hominoid study in this region is now going to develop. Y.Kunimtasu analyzed the Asian … More Miocene hominoid fossils, in cooperation with researchers of other fields of research such as vertebrate paleontology, paleomagnetostratigraphy, and sedimentology.
Thanks to the courtesy of Prof.G.Koufos of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Y.Kunimatsu also had an opportunity to investigate the fossils of Ouranopithecus macedoniensis from Greece. This large fossil hominoid is known from the early Late Miocene of Greece, and is considered to be closely related to the dispersal of hominoid primates, which occurred between Africa and Eurasia. Y.Kunimatsu observed and measured the O.macedoniensis specimens and compared them with the East African Miocene hominoids.
In addition to the investigations of primate fossils, intraspecificvariationofextantprimatemorphology was also examined by using Japanese macaques as a model case, because understanding the morphological variations of extant taxa is crucial in interpreting fossils. An excellent osteological collection of Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) is now available in Japan. Less

Report

(4 results)
  • 2005 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • 2003 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (23 results)

All 2005 2004 Other

All Journal Article (20 results) Publications (3 results)

  • [Journal Article] Hominoid fossils discovered from Chiang Muan, northern Thailand : the first step towards understanding hominoid evolution in Neogene Southeast Asia2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Science 113

      Pages: 85-93

    • NAID

      10015511352

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] 新生代後期アフロ・ユーラシアにおける化石類人猿2005

    • Author(s)
      國松 豊
    • Journal Title

      月刊地球 27

      Pages: 630-635

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Primate evolution in the Neogene Southeast Asia : Recent discoveries of hominoid fossils in Thailand2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University Suppl.1

      Pages: 21-27

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Hominoid fossils discovered from Chiang Muan, northern Thailand : the first step towards understanding hominoid evolution in Neogene Southeast Asia2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y. et al.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Science 113(1)

      Pages: 85-93

    • NAID

      10015511352

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Primate evolution in the Neogene Southeast Asia: Recent discoveries of hominoid fossils in Thailand2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y et al.
    • Journal Title

      The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University, supplement 1

      Pages: 21-27

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Fossil apes in Africa and Eurasia during the Late Cenozoic2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Chikyu Monthly 27

      Pages: 630-635

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Catarrhines from the Middle Miocene (ca. 14.5Ma) of Kipsaraman, Tugen Hills, Kenya2005

    • Author(s)
      Pickford, M., Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Science 113(2)

      Pages: 189-224

    • NAID

      10016646372

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Primate evolution in the Neogene Southeast Asia : Recent discoveries of hominoid fossils in Thailand2005

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y. et al.
    • Journal Title

      The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University Suppl.1

      Pages: 21-27

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] An additional specimen of a large-bodied Miocene hominoid from Chiang Muan, northern Thailand2004

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Primates 46

      Pages: 65-69

    • NAID

      10014311675

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Age and taxonomic status of the Chiang Muan (Thailand) hominoids2004

    • Author(s)
      Pickford, M.
    • Journal Title

      Comptes Rendus Palevol 3

      Pages: 65-75

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary 2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] 「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より2004

    • Author(s)
      Kunimaatsu, Y et al.An additional specimen of a large-bodied Miocene hominoid from Chiang Muan, northern Thailand
    • Journal Title

      Primates 46

      Pages: 65-69

    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Age and taxonomic status of the Chiang Muan (Thailand) hominoids.2004

    • Author(s)
      Pickford, M. et al.
    • Journal Title

      Comptes Rendus Palevol 3

      Pages: 65-75

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Earliest hominoid fossil from Southeast Asia2004

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      American Journal of Physical Anthropology 124(2)

      Pages: 99-108

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Maxillae and associated gnathodental specimens of Nacholapithecus kerioi, a large-bodied hominoid from Nachola, northern Kenya.2004

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Human Evolution 46(4)

      Pages: 365-400

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Nacholapithecus skeleton from the Middle Miocene of Kenya2004

    • Author(s)
      Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Human Evolution 46

      Pages: 69-103

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Preliminary analysis of Nacholapithecus scapula And Clavicle from Nachola, Kenya2004

    • Author(s)
      Senut, B.
    • Journal Title

      Primates 45(2)

      Pages: 97-104

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Magnetostratigraphy of the Miocene Chiang Muan Formation, northern Thailand : Implication for revised chronology of the earliest Miocene hominoid in Southeast Asia

    • Author(s)
      Suganuma, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (In press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Magnetostratigraphy of the Miocene Chiang Muan Formation, northern Thailand : Implication for revised chronology of the earliest Miocene hominoid in Southeast Asia

    • Author(s)
      Suganuma, Y. et al.
    • Journal Title

      Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Ontogenetic change an geographic variation of atlas bridging in Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata)

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto, A., Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Scinece (in press)

    • NAID

      10017650815

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Intranasal tooth in Japanese macaque (Macaca fuscata)

    • Author(s)
      Yamamoto, A., Kunimatsu, Y.
    • Journal Title

      Mammal Study (in press)

    • NAID

      10017603411

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kunimatsu, Y., et al.: "Earliest Miocene hominoid from Southeast Asia"American Journal of Physical Anthropology. (In press).

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Kunimatsu, Y., et al.: "Maxillae and associated gnathodental specimens of Nacholapithecus kerioi, a large-bodied hominoid from Nachola northern Kenya"Journal of Human Evolution. (In press).

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report
  • [Publications] Pickford, M., et al.(共著者): "Age and taxonomic status of the Chiang Muan (Thailand) hominoids"Comptes Rendus Palevol. (In press).

    • Related Report
      2003 Annual Research Report

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