BEIJING (AFP) - An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.
The skull, consisting of 16 pieces, was dug up last month after two years of excavation at a site in Xuchang in Henan province, the China Daily said.
The pieces were fossilised because they were buried near the mouth of a spring whose water had a high calcium content, the report said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/wl_as...haeologyscience
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BEIJING (AFP) - An almost complete human skull dating back 80,000 to 100,000 years has been unearthed in central China, state media reported Wednesday.
The skull, consisting of 16 pieces, was dug up last month after two years of excavation at a site in Xuchang in Henan province, the China Daily said.
The pieces were fossilised because they were buried near the mouth of a spring whose water had a high calcium content, the report said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/wl_as...haeologyscience
The skull, consisting of 16 pieces, was dug up last month after two years of excavation at a site in Xuchang in Henan province, the China Daily said.
The pieces were fossilised because they were buried near the mouth of a spring whose water had a high calcium content, the report said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/wl_as...haeologyscience
That's pretty cool.
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Besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils and stone and bone artifacts were found over the past two years in an area of 260 square metres (2,800 square feet), the report said.
The oldest human fossil found in China so far was a tooth unearthed in 1965 in Yuanmou county in the southwestern province of Yunnan that dated back 1.7 million years, said Wu.
The oldest human fossil found in China so far was a tooth unearthed in 1965 in Yuanmou county in the southwestern province of Yunnan that dated back 1.7 million years, said Wu.
It's amazing that we can find these things and them being so old.
This is very interesting, Out of Asia instead of Out of Africa perhaps?
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