Longlin
The Longlin Autonomous County of Multiple Nationalities ( Chinese 隆林 各族 自治县 , Pinyin Lónglín gèzú Zìzhìxiàn ; Zhuang Lungzlinz Gakcuz Swciyen ) is an autonomous county in the Guangxi Autonomous Region of the Zhuang Nationality in the south of the People's Republic of China. It belongs to the administrative area of the prefecture-level city of Bose . It has an area of 3,542 square kilometers and has a population of around 360,000 (2004). Its main town is Xinzhou (新 州镇).
Administrative structure
At the community level, the district is made up of four large communities and twelve communities.
Early human finds
In 1979, near the village of De'e, geologist Li Changqing discovered a partially preserved lower jaw and some other body bones in what is known as the Longlin Cave . These were examined in Kunming and dated in 2012 to an age of 11,510 ± 255 calibrated calendar years before today were. They are similar to the finds from the Malu Cave (Maludong, translated: deer cave) about 300 kilometers away , which has been explored since 1989 and is located near the city of Menzi ; Here, among other things, a partially preserved skull, lower jaw fragments and individual teeth were recovered that are between 14,500 and 13,000 calibrated calendar years old. The morphological features of the finds differ significantly from the features of the population living in China today, but they resemble much older African fossils . Therefore, although they were assigned to modern humans ( Homo sapiens ), they may belong to a separate group of immigrants from Africa who lived at both sites and who settled in the region earlier and separately from the immediate ancestors of today's Chinese.
Following one of the sites the population as was Red Deer Cave People ( Red Deer Cave people ), respectively.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
Coordinates: 24 ° 43 ' N , 105 ° 26' E