Nanjing man

As a Nanjing man ( Chinese  南京 人 or 南京 猿人 , English Nanjing Man ), the fossil discovered in March 1993 near Nanjing , Jiangsu Province , China , of a hominine skullcap with preserved bones of the left half of the face, which were classified as Homo erectus . The finds come from the Huludong Cave, a karst cave in the Leigongshan Mountains in Tangshan, about 26 km east of Nanjing.

The bones were directly dated using Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (also TIMS U-Th dating ), a special method of mass spectrometry , to an age of 620,000 to 580,000 years.

See also

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

literature

• Wu Rukang, Li Xingxue, Wu Xinzhi and Mu Xinan (eds.): Homo erectus from Nanjing. Nanjing: Jiangsu Science and Technology Publishing House, 2002. 317 pages.

Web links

• Chinese hominid challenges out-of-Africa origin of modern man (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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, p. 139, ISBN 978-0953541843 , full text (PDF; 3.5 MB)
2. ↑ ZHANG Lu-jin: The Significance of the Discovery and Researches of the Homo erectus From Nanjing In: Geological Journal of China Universities , 2003-03