User:Madalibi/Prehistoric China

Early hominins and archaic humans
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
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.