List of hominine fossils from the Paleolithic in China

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"There are
still 100% things in China's museums
that can be seen as a species of their own
that just don't have a name."


Important hominine fossils of the Paleolithic discovered in China are compiled in this overview (with Pinyin spelling and Chinese characters), whereby it should be pointed out that in many cases the soil layers of their place of discovery were inaccurately documented and the dating is therefore also inadequate.

  • Homo erectus
    • Peking Man (Běijīng yuánrén 北京猿人), Age: 770,000 to 400,000 years
    • Lantian man (Lántián yuánrén 蓝田 猿人), Age: 650,000 to 500,000 or 300,000 years
    • Nanjing man , age: 620,000 to 580,000 years old
    • Yuanmou man (Yuánmóu yuánrén 元谋 猿人), age: 600,000 to 500,000 years (?)
    • Jianshi man , age: 600,000 to 400,000 years (?)
    • Dali man , age: 300,000 to 260,000 years
    • Jinniushan man , age: 260,000 to 165,000 years (?)
    • Maba 1 (Mǎbàrén 马坝 人), age: 240,000 or 130,000 years (?)
    • Xuchang man , age: 100,000 to 80,000 years

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Friedemann Schrenk in: Spectrum of Science , No. 9/2010, p. 73
  2. ^ Geoffrey G. Pope: Evidence on the age of the Asian Hominidae. In: PNAS , Volume 80, No. 16, 1983, pp. 4988–4992, full text (PDF; 1.1 MB)
  3. "In East Asia, human fossils are [...] numerous, but their significance has been difficult to assess to poor knowledge of their geological context and inadequate dating." Darren Curnoe et al .: Human Remains from the Pleistocene-Holocene Transition of Southwest China Suggest a Complex Evolutionary History for East Asians. In: PLoS ONE , Volume 7, No. 3, e31918, 2012, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0031918