Liujiang man

As Liujiang - man (柳江 人, Liǔjiāngrén, English Liujiang Man ) refers to hominin fossils that have been dated discovered in 1958 in a cave near the village in Liujiang Tongtianyan Autonomous Region Guangxi Zhuang and the late Middle Pleistocene / early Upper Pleistocene. These fossils are a complete skull and some bones from the region below the head.

The Chinese editor of the fossil is assigned to the early modern humans (Homo sapiens) and pointed out that it ( rénzhǒng yuánshǐ Měnggǔ ) features an early representative of the Mongoloids having.

The skull is considered a possible candidate for the oldest fossil of modern humans, has been found in East Asia as a uranium -thorium dating yielded an age of 67,000 ± 6000 years. However, in the recovery of the fossil was failed to make a detailed documentation of the Fund layer, so the calculated by other methods Age 153000-30000 years varied.