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 a 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 a 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 a flatter face, more delicate skulls, and the early emergence of a 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 a human group consisting of roughly 20 members
. By Global Times
Source globaltimes.cn
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