Liujiang man
As Liujiang Man ( 柳江人 , Liǔjiāngrén , English Liujiang Man ) refers to hominin fossils that in 1958 in a cave near the village of Tongtianyan in Liujiang Autonomous Region Guangxi discovered the Zhuang and the late Middle Pleistocene Early / Late Pleistocene were dated. These fossils are a complete skull and some bones from the region below the head.
The Chinese compilers of the fossil assigned it to the early anatomically modern human ( Homo sapiens ) and pointed out that it had characteristics of an early representative of the East Asian human type ( called Mongolide in the outdated racial theory ) (yuánshǐ Měnggǔ rénzhǒng). The Minatogawa man , in Japan on the Ryūkyū Islands, shows similar typical East Asian features and resembles today's inhabitants of Okinawa.
The skull was believed to be a possible candidate for the oldest Homo sapiens fossil found in East Asia , as a uranium-thorium dating of the rock in which the fossil was believed to have been embedded is 67,000 ± 6,000 years old revealed. However, when the fossil was recovered, an exact documentation of the find layer was neglected, which is why the uranium-thorium dating is not necessarily associated with the fossil. The age calculated using other methods varies between 159,000 and 50,000 years.
See also
Web links
- Chinese Originate from China (The Ministry of Science and Technology People's Republic of China) - English
- Liujiang, China - English
- Feature: Chinese Hominid Challenges Out-of-Africa Origin of Modernman - English
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 , p. 1061.
- ↑ ibid.
- ↑ Hisao Baba, Shuichiro Narasaki: Minatogawa Man in East Asia . In: The Quaternary Research (daiyonki-kenkyu) . tape 30 , January 1, 1991, pp. 221–230 , doi : 10.4116 / jaqua.30.221 ( researchgate.net [accessed July 27, 2018]).
- ↑ Peter Brown : The first modern East Asians? Another look at Upper Cave 101, Liujiang and Minatogawa 1 . In: Keiichi Omoto (Ed.): Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Origins of the Japanese. International Research Center for Japanese Studies , Kyoto 1999, pp. 105–130, full text (PDF; 1.95 MB)
- ↑ 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 7 (3): e31918, 2012, doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0031918
- ^ Karen Rosenburg: A Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton from Liujiang, China Suggests Regional Population Variation in Sexual Dimorphism in the Human Pelvis. In: Variability and Evolution . Volume 2, 2002, pp. 5–17, full text (PDF)