User:Madalibi/Prehistoric China
Early hominins and archaic humans[edit]
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[edit]
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[edit]
Neolithic[edit]
Agriculture[edit]
Complex societies[edit]
Early Bronze Age[edit]
Erlitou[edit]
Erligang[edit]
Sanxingdui[edit]
References[edit]
Notes[edit]
Works cited[edit]
- 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.