User:Madalibi/Prehistoric China

Early hominins and archaic humans

See also: Out of Africa I, Homo erectus, Homo sapiens, Early human migrations, and Recent African origin of modern humans

Themes: climate at the time, migration routes; north China vs. South China; connection to broader Asian migrations

Hominins, Xiaochangliang (Nihewan Basin, Dachangliang, Longgupo), Yuanmou Man, Zhoukoudian, Peking Man

Chinese Neanderthals or archaic Homo sapiens: Maba (Guangdong), Dali (Shaanxi), Lantian (Shaanxi), Jinniushan (Liaoning: a female of uncertain species; could be Neanderthal or something like Homo heidelbergensis, an archaic Homo sapiens from about 280,000 years ago), Hexian (Anhui: Homo erectus?)

Modern humans

Tianyuan man (Tianyuan Cave should be merged into it): found in 2003; estimated to date to about 40,000 years ago, comparable in age to the remains found at the Niah Caves on Borneo.

Paleolithic

See also: List of Paleolithic sites in China

Neolithic

See also: List of Neolithic cultures of China

Early Bronze Age

Further information: Bronze Age § China

Erlitou

Main article: Erlitou

Erligang

Main article: Erligang

Sanxingdui

Main article: Sanxingdui

References

Works cited

• Gao, Xing; Wei, Qi; Shen, Chen; Keates, Susan (2005), "New Light on the Earliest Hominid Occupation in East Asia", Current Anthropology, 46 (S5),  – via JSTOR (subscription required) : S115–S120, doi:10.1086/497666, JSTOR 10.1086/497666.