Jianshi man

The Jianshi man ( Chinese  建 始 直立 人 , Pinyin Jiànshǐ zhílìrén , English Jianshi Man ) is a Homo erectus named after its place of discovery in Jianshi County, Hubei Province , China . The fossils were discovered in a cave in Mazhaping Village (麻扎 坪), Gaoping Township.

According to Zheng Shaohua , a member of the Jianshi human research team at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences , the discovered dental fossils are dated from 2.15 to 1.95 million years ago. Other researchers assign them to the relatively reliably dated Peking man and the fossil finds known as the so-called Yuanmou man , which correspond to an age of 600,000 to 400,000 years.

The Jianshi site ( Jianshi zhiliren yizhi ) in Jianshi County has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-157) since 2006 .

See also

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

Web links

• New evidence challenges hypothesis of modern human origins - English

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-04/27/content_2884681.htm
2. ↑ Gary J. Sawyer, Viktor Deak: The Long Way to Man. Life pictures from 7 million years of evolution . Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2008, p. 125

Coordinates: 30 ° 39 ′ 15 ″  N , 110 ° 4 ′ 29 ″  E