Renzidong
The Renzidong site ( Chinese 人 字 洞 遗址 , Pinyin Rénzì dòng yízhǐ , English Renzi Cave site - "Renzi cave site") is a Paleolithic cave site discovered in 1998 in Fanchang County in the Chinese province of Anhui . It has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-93) since 2006 .
Stone tools discovered there are dated to an age of approx. 2.25 million years.
literature
- Jin et al .: A Preliminary Study on the Early Pleistocene Deposits and the Mammalian Fauna from the Renzi Cave, Fanchang, Anhui, China. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, Supplement to Vol. 19, 2000
- The Early Pleistocene deposits and mammalian fauna from Renzidong, Fanchang, Anhui Province, China. Acta Anthrop. Sin., 19 (3): 185-198
Web links
- Early Homo Erectus Tools in China - English
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Storch: Evolutionary Biology. Springer, 2007, ISBN 9783540682110 , p. 464. limited preview in Google book search
Coordinates: 31 ° 5 ′ 23 ″ N , 118 ° 5 ′ 46 ″ E