Yuanmou Man

As Yuanmou - man (Homo erectus yuanmouensis, Chinese: Yuanmou Yuanren元谋 猿人or Yuanmou ren元谋 人) are referred to two fossil maxillary incisors, which were found in 1965 by the geologist Fang Qian in Shangnabang in a circle Yuanmou in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan. Because of their similarity to the known from Zhoukoudian Peking Man finds they are - like the Jianshi - man - Homo erectus assigned.

The age of the findings is unclear, since their exact location at the site in excavations in 1973 could not be safely reconstructed by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Near the locality there are areas whose age has been dated to about 1.7 million years. Finds of fossil animals whose age was elsewhere dated and therefore is regarded as certain, but suggest that the soil layers were repeated significantly rearranged, so that today is older material over younger and an age of less than 900,000 years was to insinuate. Other estimates that take into account the propagation history of Homo erectus in Asia, approve the finds to a mere age 600000-500000 years.

The site of its discovery is on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China since 1982.