Dingcun human
As Dingcun man ( 丁 村人 , Dīngcūnrén , English Dingcun Man ) are paleolithic fossils that were discovered in 1954 near the village of Dingcun in the Xiangfen district in the Chinese province of Shanxi . The finds belong to the geological period of the Late Pleistocene . The Dingcun man appears later as the Changyang man (Changyangren). The fossils discovered - two front teeth and one molar - come from one person. The structure of the teeth has archaic characteristics, but the crown and root of the tooth are very small compared to the Peking man . At the same time, a large number of stone tools and animal fossils were discovered. In 1976, a child's parietal bone fossil was discovered at the Dingcun site . The find was called early Homo sapiens by its Chinese editors , which, however, contradicts the genetic analyzes of the spread of humans known today , on the basis of which they are to be put to Homo erectus .
The Chinese archaeologist Pei Wenzhong has explored the site.
The Dingcun site (Dingcun yizhi 丁 村 遗址) of the Dingcun culture (Dingcun wenhua 丁 村 文化) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (1-137) since 1961 .
Coordinates: 35 ° 50 ′ 15.7 " N , 111 ° 25 ′ 35.2" E
See also
Web links
- Dingcun Site - English
- The Dingcun and the Hetao man
- Dingcunren - Chinese
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 , p. 350.
- ↑ ibid.