The Origin of man may be in debate once again!

An human skull, in 16 pieces almost making a full fossil, that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China.

Archaeologists from China have a 100,000-year-old human skull that may help prove Chinese people originated locally instead of from the African area's

The human skull fossil was unearthed when Chinese archaeologists were excavating a 260 m2 paleolithic site in Xuchang City, It has been name the Xuchang Man, ironically following on from the Peking Man!

The 16 piece Skull has protruding eyebrows and a shallower forehead. It is well preserved, and scientists at the university of Peking have confirmed the skull 'could' date back up to 100,000 years ago. If this is true then it may be able to provide clues about the evolution of Chinese people.

Other Chinese finds have been the two-million-year-old fossils of Wushan man in 1984 and the woman skull fossils of Lantian man in 1964 that date back 800,000 years.

The country found skull fossils of Peking Man in 1929 that date back 200,000 to 700,000 years. In 1984, fossils of Jinniushan Man, who lived 100,000 to 200,000 years ago, were discovered in Liaoning Province also the 10,000 to 40,000-year-old fossils of upper cave man which was unearthed in Beijing in 1933.

The evolution of Chinese people lacks one key period between 50,000 and 100,000 years ago, which led to a theory that modern Chinese people were descendants of Africans, so you can see the significance of this find.

Comments

[jeff]

Unless someone is some sort of religionist, isn't the origin of man always going to be in debate?

[Sam]

Unfortunately that seems to be the way things are going in this world. But i guess with the emerging new religion that i don't want mention on my site, can the world be so fickle.