Wushan Man: Oldest Human Found in China

Archaeologists have recently found evidence, 2 million year-old human fossils, suggesting that the earliest human species was from Whushan County, Chongging, China.

wushan man 02 Wushan Man: Oldest Human Found in China picture

“It’s an exciting discovery because it may rewrite China’s history,” said Huang.

A lower jawbone fragment and an incisor, along with some 230 stone tools, was found from a human they are naming “Wushan Man”.

wushan man 01 Wushan Man: Oldest Human Found in China picture

This discovery pre-dates the findings of the Yuanmou Man, found in southwestern Yunnan Province, by 300,000 years.

“Various dating techniques corroborated earlier findings that the geological layer containing the Wushan Man fossils and artifacts is two to 2.04 million years old,” said Wanbo.

(Thaindian)

By Sun Tzu on 20-11-2007

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Comments (14)

  1. Comment by darkwing duck

    November 20th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    If you keep playing with the dirty you will find old thing’s.

  2. Comment by Casual Adventurer

    November 22nd, 2007 at 8:10 pm

    Wow 2 Million years old……. but unfortunately he’s lost his youthful good looks….

  3. Comment by Sm4ll

    November 23rd, 2007 at 4:33 am

    i think he still got his good looks. :)

  4. Comment by n-blue

    November 25th, 2007 at 3:53 am

    One thing that prove me, human not came from Africa. This seem to be the oldest as far as I know.

  5. Comment by OMPALOMPA

    November 26th, 2007 at 9:43 pm

    same here i think he still has the looks to
    =P

  6. Comment by corey

    January 30th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    this is not that good of pics and i think you need more

  7. Comment by Bala

    July 28th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    Hi, this is my picture

  8. Comment by Ku-er-te

    August 14th, 2008 at 4:27 pm

    How funny… China is lying about the age of their fossils AND their gymnasts!

  9. Comment by Haekel

    August 14th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Awright! Another piltdown man, or nebraska man! It’s a billion billion million years old! Yawn…

  10. Comment by Brad

    August 15th, 2008 at 4:52 am

    Or just 2 million? But I bet you’re one of those “The Earth is only 5,000 years old.” types, aren’t ya?

  11. Comment by Phatoreous

    August 15th, 2008 at 10:01 am

    That’s pretty funny!

  12. Comment by Matt

    August 16th, 2008 at 12:06 am

    …and the fireworks shown on TV broadcasts (computer made), and the person singing that opening song (actually another girl that was “not pretty enough for TV”). Mix that in with foul judging in boxing and shooting and you have one rough Olympics.

  13. Comment by howler24

    August 16th, 2008 at 7:29 am

    Yeah, judging from that little female gymnast we all know how the Chinese like to skew the age of things….

  14. Comment by Kyle

    September 28th, 2009 at 8:26 am

    The idiots who discredit these findings by saying the Chinese are lying are most likely of negroid decent. Or wish they were.

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