Ziyang man

As Ziyang man ( 资 阳 人 , Zīyángrén , English Ziyang Man / Tzu-yang Man / Tzuyang Man / Tze-yang Man / etc. ) Are fossils of a representative of the genus Homo , which was born in 1951 in Huangshanxi 黄鳝 溪 in the Ziyang district in the Chinese province of Sichuan have been discovered. It is the skull of a woman over 50 years old. There are two views on dating: according to one it belongs to the late Pleistocene , according to the other it lived about 7,000 years ago according to radiocarbon dating and dendrochronology . It is therefore either the remains of a modern human (Homo sapiens) or - if the fossil is older than 35,000 years - the remains of a Homo erectus .

See also

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

literature

• Pei Wenzhong et al .: Ziyangren , Beijing: Kexue chubanshe, 1957

Web links

• Ziyangren (Ziyang Man) - Chinese

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cihai ("Sea of ​​Words"), Shanghai cishu chubanshe, Shanghai 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5 , p. 2273.
2. ↑ ibid.