0213 - Early Man Fossils Discovered In Liaoning Province. The Early Human, ...Back

Early Man Fossils Discovered In Liaoning Province. The Early Human, whose fossils were discovered in Qianyang area in Liaoning Province, northeast China, in may, 1982, has been given the name "Qianyang Man". The noted Chinese palaeoanthropologist Jia Lanpo and his associates believe that this Early Human dates back more than 18,000 years, contemporary with the Zhoukoudian Upper Cave Man of Beijing. The fossils include a skull, a mandible (lower jaw), a thigh bone and six teeth. They belong to two individuals one of whom was probably a 12-year-old girl, and the other a middle- aged person. Unearthed from the same geological stratum were 17 species of animal fossils including racoom dog, roedeer, bear, hyena and red deer. Most of the species still exist today. Among the finds there are bone fragments with out scars and scraping traces and sharp bone implements as well as burnt bones and stones. Specialists bleieve that this rare discovery of so many well-preserved fossils at one spot in northeast China will be of of great value in studying the principles of distribution of early humanity in the late old stone age, the spreading of the culture at that time and the environment in which early humane lived.