Xuetangliangzi

Xuetangliangzi ( Chinese 学堂梁子 , Pinyin Xuétángliángzǐ ) is a paleontological site in the Yunyang district of the Chinese province of Hubei . The Xuetangliangzi site is located at the mouth of the Quyuan He River and the Han Jiang River .

In 1989 and 1990 the fragments of two severely deformed and broken skulls ('Yunxian people', archive number EV 9001 and EV 9002) were discovered here - near the Mitousi community - which are attributed to Homo erectus by their Chinese descriptions . Based on animal fossils found nearby, the age of the two skulls was narrowed down to approximately 600,000 to 400,000 years. There are similarities with the so-called Dali man . The paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer pointed out in 2012 that the fossil could possibly belong to the Denisova people .

The fossils were excavated by the Hubei Province Cultural Objects and Archeology Institute , the Yunyang Area (now Shiyan City) Museum, and the Yun County Museum. The site is also called the site of the Yunxian man .

The Xuetangliangzi site (Xuétángliángzǐ yízhǐ 学堂梁子遗址) has been on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (5-79) since 2001 .

Web links

Le site de l'Homme de Yunxian - French (PDF file; 7.01 MB)
Morphological Features of Human Skulls from Quyuan River Mouth, Yunxian, Hubei, and their Place in Human Evolution - English
Xuetangliangzi Site at Quyuan River Mouth, Discoveries and Researches of - Chinese

Individual evidence

↑ 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)
^ Ian Tattersall : The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack - and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, p. 144, ISBN 978-1-137-27889-0
↑ Chris Stringer : The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908). In: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. Volume 21, No. 3, 2012, pp. 101-107, doi: 10.1002 / evan.21311

32.833888888889 110.58472222222Coordinates: 32 ° 50 ′ 2 ″ N , 110 ° 35 ′ 5 ″ E

[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] Ian Tattersall : The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack - and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution. Palgrave Macmillan, New York 2015, p. 144, ISBN 978-1-137-27889-0

[3] Chris Stringer : The status of Homo heidelbergensis (Schoetensack 1908). In: Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. Volume 21, No. 3, 2012, pp. 101-107, doi: 10.1002 / evan.21311