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.