Fossils discovered 300,000 years old
Archaeologists found many fossils of humans, mammals and stone artifacts at the site of a former cave.
Archaeologists found many human fossils, mammals and stone artifacts at the site of a former cave.
Professor Wu Xiujie, a member of the research team.(Photo: Xinhua).
More than 30 ancient human fossil bone fragments of about 300,000 years old were found at an excavation site in Dong Chi district, Anhui province, eastern China, and paleontologists of the country on May 24 gave know. The new discovery can help us better understand how ancient humans lived and developed in East Asia.
The site found fossils that were thought to be a large cave in the past but collapsed for some reason. Around human bones, the team unearthed more than 100 fossil and stone artifacts from more than 40 mammals.
"In the cave, we not only discovered a large number of fossils of ancient humans, but also found evidence of their living behavior. This can shed light on how ancient humans are born. live and develop, " said Wu Xiujie, Professor from the Institute of Anthropological Anthropology and Vertebrate Paleontology.
In the bones found, the most prominent is a human skull with a nearly complete structure of the mold. The fossil is dated to the Middle Pleistocene, a period in the Renovation, 781,000 - 126,000 years ago.
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