<div><font color="Navy">Fossils in China reveal new Stone Age people
Youngest of their kind found in mainland East Asia show mix of archaic, modern features
CBC News
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 10:29 AM ET
Last Updated: Mar 15, 2012 12:24 PM ET
An artist's reconstruction of fossils from two caves in southwest China indicate
a previously unknown species that survived until the end of the Ice Age, scientists say. (Peter Schouten )
Four sets of mysterious human-like fossils found in China may offer insight into a previously unknown Stone Age people, according to an international team of scientists.
The remains were found in two caves in southwest China.
"Dated to just 14,500 to 11,500 years old, these people would have shared the landscape with modern-looking people at a time when China's earliest farming cultures were beginning," said a press release from the University of New South Wales.
Associate Prof. Darren Cunroeis co-leading the study along with Prof. Ji Xueping from the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology.
The scientists, however, are cautious about making firm judgments about the fossils as they have a mix of modern and archaic features.
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Youngest of their kind found in mainland East Asia show mix of archaic, modern features
CBC News
Posted: Mar 15, 2012 10:29 AM ET
Last Updated: Mar 15, 2012 12:24 PM ET
An artist's reconstruction of fossils from two caves in southwest China indicate
a previously unknown species that survived until the end of the Ice Age, scientists say. (Peter Schouten )
Four sets of mysterious human-like fossils found in China may offer insight into a previously unknown Stone Age people, according to an international team of scientists.
The remains were found in two caves in southwest China.
"Dated to just 14,500 to 11,500 years old, these people would have shared the landscape with modern-looking people at a time when China's earliest farming cultures were beginning," said a press release from the University of New South Wales.
Associate Prof. Darren Cunroeis co-leading the study along with Prof. Ji Xueping from the Yunnan Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology.
The scientists, however, are cautious about making firm judgments about the fossils as they have a mix of modern and archaic features.
More...