Chenjiawo site
The Chenjiawo site ( Chinese 陈家 窝 , Pinyin Chénjiāwō ) is an archaeological and palaeoanthropological site in Lantian County in the Chinese province of Shaanxi . In 1963 a very well preserved toothed lower jaw of Homo erectus was discovered here - near Yehu - which, together with the hominine fossils from the Gongwangling site, is also known as the Lantian man ; the lower jaw of Chenjiawo is also known as the 'Chenjiawo man' ( 陈家 窝 人 , Chénjiāwōrén - "Chenchiawo man"). A paleomagnetic dating by Chinese researchers indicated an age of 650,000 to 500,000 years.
In addition to a human fossil discovered here, a fossil fauna community was also discovered, the Chenjiawo Fauna Community ( 陈家 窝 动物 群 , Chénjiāwō dòngwùqún ).
The two sites of the so-called Lantian people have been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (2-47) since 1982 .
See also
- List of hominine fossils from the Paleolithic in China
- List of paleolithic sites in China
- List of fossil fauna sites in China
literature
- Hu, CK, Qi, T .: Gongwangling Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna of Lantian, Shaanxi (Chinese with English abstract), Beijing: Science Press, 1978, 1-62
Web links
- Peter Brown: Chinese Middle Pleistocene hominids and modern human origins in east Asia (Chenjiawo, p.138) (PDF file; 3.30 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Brown: Chinese Middle Pleistocene hominids and modern human origins in east Asia. In: Lawrence Barham and Kate Robson Brown (Eds.): Human Roots. Africa and Asia in the Middle Pleistocene. Western Academic & Specialist Publishers, Bristol 2001, p. 138, ISBN 978-0953541843 , full text (PDF; 3.5 MB)
Coordinates: 34 ° 14 ′ 37.1 ″ N , 109 ° 20 ′ 46.1 ″ E