Chaoxian human

The Chaoxian man (Chinese 巢 县人; Pinyin : Cháoxiànrén; English Chaoxian Man) are fossils of a Paleolithic culture in southeast China. They were discovered in 1982 and 1983 in a limestone formation near the village of Yin Shan (银山) in the former Chao ("Chaoxian") district - today's independent city of Chaohu  - in Anhui Province (location: 117 degrees 52 'east, 31 degrees 33 'North).

A fragment of an occipital bone, a toothed upper jaw fragment (1st premolar to 1st molar ) and three individual upper jaw teeth were found. According to a dating published in 1984, the finds from this cave are said to be 200,000 to 160,000 years old. According to this dating, they would be assigned to Homo erectus , but numerous dates of Chinese hominin fossils are considered "very uncertain"; possibly the fossils are only around 60,000 years old.

See also

• List of hominine fossils from the Paleolithic in China
• List of paleolithic sites in China

Web links

• Chaoxianren - Chinese
• Chaoxian Cave (China)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Xinshi Wu, Frank E. Poirier: Human evolution in China. Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York 1995, p. 134 full text
2. ↑ Xinshi Wu, Frank E. Poirier: Human evolution in China , p. 8
3. ↑ Winfried Henke , Hartmut Rothe : Stammesgeschichte des Menschen: an introduction . Springer, Berlin 1999, p. 270, ISBN 978-3540648314