'Homo erectus' from Gongwangling could have been the earliest population in China

Cenieh ^ | Monday, 13 June 2022 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) form part of a team of Chinese, Spanish, and French scientists that has just published a study of what may prove to be China's most ancient human fossil, in the Journal of Human Evolution. The researchers employed microCT, geometric morphometry, and classical morphology techniques to investigate the remains of the maxillary and five teeth from the skull unearthed at the Chinese site of Gongwangling.

This site is on the vast plains on the northern slopes of the Quinling Mountains (province of Shaanxi, in central China) and was discovered by the scientist Woo Ju-Kang in 1963. The age of the site was reevaluated in 2015 through regional paleomagnetism studies. Those data suggest that the Gongwangling remains date from something over 1.6 million years ago, and so they could belong to one of the first human beings to colonize what is now China.

According to the new study, there exist similarities between the Gongwangling teeth and those from rather more recent Chinese sites: Meipu and Quyuan River Mouth; but some variability is also presented, suggesting a certain diversity among the populations of H. erectus that colonized Asia during the Pleistocene.

The importance of this new work lies in the scarcity of information about the early colonization of Asia. The Dmanisi site (Republic of Georgia) has furnished very significant evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia, who arrived from Africa around two million years ago. But much more information is needed to connect Dmanisi with the classic H. erectus populations of China (Hexian, Yiyuan, Xichuan, or Zhoukoudian), who lived in this great continental mass between 400,000 and 800,000 years ago.

[SunkenCiv]

Remains of jawbone and teeth of Gongwangling skull/Xing Song

Xing Song

[SunkenCiv]

maybe later this week:

Ancient water conservancy facilities discovered in central China
(Xinhua) 15:16, June 12, 2022
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0612/c90000-10108602.html

A Treasure Chest of 13,000 Artifacts Reveals the Mysterious Chinese Civilization
By Paw Mozter Jun 17, 2022 01:20 AM EDT
https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/51423/20220617/treasure-chest-13-000-artifacts-reveals-mysterious-chinese-civilization.htm

Bronze altar discovered at Sanxingdui ruins site in SW China
CGTN
Culture China 17:11, 12-Jun-2022
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-12/Bronze-altar-discovered-at-Sanxingdui-ruins-site-in-SW-China-1aNZnuC4nRe/index.html

[SunkenCiv]

[who_would_fardels_bear]

They just called themselves that... ya know... cuz compensation.

[blam]

"The importance of this new work lies in the scarcity of information about the early colonization of Asia. The Dmanisi site (Republic of Georgia) has furnished very significant evidence of the earliest inhabitants of Asia, who arrived from Africa around two million years ago."

Stranger In A New Land

Image: JOHN GURCHE PORTRAIT OF A PIONEER With a brain half the size of a modern one and a brow reminiscent of Homo habilis, this hominid is one of the most primitive members of our genus on record. Paleoartist John Gurche reconstructed this 1.75-million-year-old explorer from a nearly complete teenage H. erectus skull and associated mandible found in Dmanisi in the Republic of Georgia. The background figures derive from two partial crania recovered at the site.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

Homo erectus? The city of San Fagcisco is full of them.

[RightWingNutJob69]

A joke from wayyy long go:

What do you call a gay dinosaur?
A homo erectus!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam, I forgot to add that keyword.

[LastDayz]

I think they misspelled Dongwangling.

[whitney69]

“What do you call a gay dinosaur?”

A Democrat

wy69

[Antihero101607]

𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘢 𝘨𝘢𝘺 𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳?

Megasaurass?

[NWFree]

Sounds like an Asian gay parade 🤪

[JimBobWay]

Homo Ignoramus still walk the earth to this very day... They’re those that believe in evolution.

They will kick and scream to beleive anything but the Biblical account of Creation.

[JimBobWay]

Let’s remember that evolution is a theory.

And yes I know how to spell “believe”

[SunkenCiv]

Now that you’ve looked it up, yes.

[BeauBo]

Let’s just be thankful that no one has dragged Uranus into this thread.

[Red Badger]

Hehheheh He said Homo Erectus!......................