Figure 9

Synthesis of well-dated hominin or Paleolithic sites in China during the Mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT) (1.0–0.6 Ma)^46,47 with respect to ATNTS2012⁵⁶, and temporal variations of both marine and terrestrial paleoclimatic proxies in East Asia. (a) Paleoclimatic periodicities. (b) Long-term variations of eccentricity⁵⁷. (c) δ¹⁸O record from ODP Site 1143, South China Sea⁵⁸. (d) Chinese loess Chiloparts time scale, which is the stacked grain-size age model for Chinese loess/paleosol sequences⁴⁸. (e) Paleolithic or hominin sites (see Table 2). (f) ATNTS2012⁵⁶. The shaded area represents the MPT, which began at about 1–0.8 Ma and terminated at about 0.7–0.6 Ma^46,47.