Ancient 'Wushan Man' written into history textbook

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Ancient 'Wushan Man' written into history textbook

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The archaeological finds over the past two decades of the ancient "Wushan Man" have been written into the first draft of "The Chinese History" compiled as a middle school textbook by the People's Education Press.

Some skeleton fossils of gigantic apes, as well as cumulate fossils of deer, hyena, rhinoceros and elephants, were unearthed at the Longgupo Site by an expert team led by Huang Wanbo, a professor with Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

In October this year, the professor led his men to excavate the Longgupo Site, located in Wushan Mountain in western China's Chongqing Municipality, for the third time.

The Longgupo Site was reported as one of the most well preserved paleolithic sites with rich primitive cultural relics ever found in China, even in Asia.

The fossils of lower jawbone and teeth of a primitive human species and stone tools were about two million years old, according to the professor.

Huang said there is evidence that the anthropoid skull could be dug out in the next excavation phase, which would establish the fundamental status of "Wushan Man" in human evolutionary history.

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