Early Humans Lived in China 1.7 Million Years Ago

Thursday, August 15, 2013 - 08:50 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The artifacts studied may belong to Homo erectus and suggest the now-extinct human species migrated to China 700,000 years earlier than thought. Such hominid migrations to East Asia may have been due to cooling and aridity in Africa and Eurasia.

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