Beijing-Sana
Chinese antiquities authorities announced today that a 32,000-year-old human skull fossil has been found at a cave site in central China's Henan Province.
"There are two caves at the site, one of them is nine meters long, three meters wide and 3.9 meters high, with an area of thirty square meters," archaeologist Zhao Qingboo said, adding that the cave is much larger than the caves discovered in the area before.
The anthropologists said that it was possible to date two fossils of human skulls found at the cave site using the uranium series dating method, with one dating back to 32,000 years and the other dating back to 12,000 years ago.
In turn, Liu Haiwang, head of the Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Heritage and Archeology, considered that "the new discoveries are of great importance to the study of the origin and development of early modern humans in China." and wolves dating back between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago, as well as stone tools including stone chips and scrapers.
The site of the caves is located in the center of Quansi villages in Lushan county, where previous archaeological research in the area about the Paleolithic era revealed human fossils, animal fossils and stone tools.
