Shiyu man
The Shiyu-human or Zhiyu-Man is a 1963 discovered in China Fossil of Homo sapiens from the late Paleolithic that after the village of the district Shiyu Shuocheng District in Shuozhou province of Shanxi was named. From the geological period it belongs to the time about 28,000 years ago, that is, the Young Pleistocene . The site of his discovery is in the north of the village at the foot of the Heituo Shan Mountains.
It is a piece of the occiput . At the same time, a large amount of burned bones, animal fossils and a large amount of stone tools were discovered. The animal fossils come mainly from wild horses ( Equus ferus ), Asiatic donkeys ( Equus hemionus ) and Przewalski's gazelles ( Procapra przewalskii ). The stone tools are usually relatively small, mainly small choppers , pointed tools and stone arrowheads .
The site was explored by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . The site of discovery has been on the Shanxi Province monuments list since 1965 .
See also
- Shiyu culture (or Zhiyu culture)
- List of hominine fossils from the Paleolithic in China
- List of paleolithic sites in China
- Shanxi Province Monuments
literature
reference books
- Cihai ("Sea of Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
- Zhongguo da baike quanshu : Kaoguxue ("archeology"). Beijing: Zhongguo da baike quanshu chubanshe 1986
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Cihai reads 峙 as zhì, d. h. 峙 峪 人 , Zhìyùrén - "Zhiyu-man"). In Chinese specialist literature, however , 峙 峪 usually appears transcribed under the reading with shi (cf. e.g. Zhongguo da baike quanshu , Kaoguxue : entry Shiyu wenhua 峙 峪 文化 - “Shiyu culture” and others).
- ↑ or Zhiyu
- ↑ Former Shuo County 朔县 or "Shuoxian".
- ↑ Cihai , S. 2200c.
- ↑ 黑 驼 山
Coordinates: 39 ° 24 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 112 ° 20 ′ 55.1 ″ E