China's 300,000-year-old human fossils have been found to be the first archaic humans in East Asia to evolve into modern Homo sapiens



aic 
humans 
in East Asia to evolve into modern Homo sapiens are group

 of 300,000-year-old human fossils from the Hualongdong site in 

the Anhui Province of East China.

Significant study materials for examining the East Asian origins of modern humans

 have been made available via the site.

According to Xinhua News Agency, this discovery was made public on Sunday at 

the 2024 Hualongdong Site Academic Conference.

At the conference, Wu Xiujie, the head of the excavation project at the Hualongdong

 site and research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate 

Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, stated that the Hualongdong human fossils show 

an archaic human group evolving from prehistoric forms to modern humans.

With flatter face, more delicate skulls, and the early emergence of contemporary human 

feature—the chin—their physical attributes had already started to resemble those of 

modern humans.

The Hualongdong site in Dongzhi county, Anhui, was found in 1988, according to Xinhua.

Stone tools and human fossils are among the evidence of human activity found at this 

significant paleoanthropological site.

Researchers have found more than 80 species of vertebrate fossils, more than 400 stone tools 

created and used by ancient humans, several bone fragments with evidence of artificial cutting 

and smashing, and human group consisting of roughly 20 members

. By Global Times

Source globaltimes.cn


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