An international team of researchers has authored a study claiming they may have discovered what is possibly the oldest human fossil in existence in China.
Researchers from the National Center for Research on Human Evolution in Spain, as part of a team of Chinese, Spanish, and French scientists, have just published the study on what is possibly the oldest known human fossil in the country.
The researchers used X-ray micro-computed tomography techniques, geometric morphometry, and classical morphology to investigate the remains of the upper jaw and five skull teeth from the Chinese site of Gongwangling.The researchers said in a CENIEH statement released Monday:"This deposit is located in the vast plains located on the northern slopes of the Quinling Mountains in Shaanxi province, central China, and was discovered in 1963 by the scientist Woo Ju-Kang.
According to the study, there are similarities between the Gongwangling teeth and those of the other, more recent Chinese sites of Meipu and Quyuan River Mouth. But they added that there was also"some variability, which suggests a certain diversity of the populations ofThe Pleistocene or Ice Age lasted from 2,580,000 to 11,700 years ago, and was noted for several advances and retreats of continental glaciers.
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