New Research in Paleoanthropology in China: Human Fossil Discover ies in the 21st Century 

Professor Liu Wu 
Institute of Ver te br ate Paleontology and Paleoanthr opology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

This year, 2023, represents the 701st anniversary of Emile Licent and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's discovery of a child's fossilized ,-. incisor at Erdos, Inner Mongolia: The first human fossil from China. Five years later, in 7927, Davidson Black gave the genus and species names Sinanthropus pekinensis to a lower molar from the Lower Cave deposits of the Zhoukoudian site. Numerous specimens were subsequently discovered, making this the most important site in China in the 20th century. In 7950, the systematist Ernst Mayr lumped all Chinese and concurrently discovered Javanese specimens in Homo erectus. With continued fieldwork, human fossils have been recovered from about 80 Chinese sites. Ranging in age from about 7.7 mya to 70 ka, these fossils have been allocated chronologically to Homo erectus, "archaic" Homo sapiens, and "early modern" humans. 

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