He (Ma'anshan)
The circle He ( Chinese 和县 , Pinyin Hé Xiàn ) belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city Ma'anshan in the Chinese province of Anhui . In 1999 it had 642,036 inhabitants. The main town is the large community of Liyang.
The site of Homo erectus - Find of Hexian (Hexian yuanren yizhi 和 县 猿人 遗址) - the Longtandong Cave - has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (3-184) since 1988 . This find is a fairly completely preserved skull roof (archive number PA 830), fragments of a lower jaw and a few teeth that were recovered in 1980/81. These fossils were first dated in 1984 to an age of 280,000 to 240,000 years, in 1987 to only 190,000 to 150,000 years and in 1998 to 412,000 ± 25,000 years.
These fossils are kept in the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing.
structure
The district consists of the following large municipalities ( Zhen )
- Liyang ( 历 阳镇 , Lìyáng Zhèn )
- Baiqiao ( 白桥镇 , Báiqiáo Zhèn )
- Laoqiao ( 姥 桥镇 , Lǎoqiáo Zhèn )
- Gongqiao ( 功 桥镇 , Gōngqiáo Zhèn )
- Xibu ( 西 埠镇 , Xībù Zhèn )
- Xiangquan ( 香 泉镇 , Xiāngquán Zhèn )
- Wujiang ( 乌江 镇 , Wūjiāng Zhèn )
- Shanhou ( 善 厚 镇 , Shànhòu Zhèn )
- Shiyang ( 石 杨镇 , Shíyáng Zhèn )
literature
- Deborah A. Bakken: Taphonomic Parameters of Pleistocene Hominid Sites in China. ( Full text (PDF: 7.2 MB) ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ))
Web links
- Chinese overview page (English)
- Hexian Homo erectus
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/work/downloads/faqs/1999_pop_faq.html
- ↑ 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, pp. 139–140, ISBN 978-0953541843 , full text (PDF; 3.5 MB)
- ↑ Hexian fund on an Australian paleo site
Coordinates: 31 ° 41 ′ N , 118 ° 16 ′ E