110,000 -year-old mandible discovered in SW China

• Source: Global Times
• [14:59 October 28 2009]
• Comments

The model of the mandible which was discovered in  Guangxi

The mandible, or part of a lower jaw discovered in the Mulanshan Homo sapiens cave in Jiangzhou District, Chongzuo City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in May 2008 was announced to be 110,000 years old Tuesday.

Archaeologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropplogy of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Peking University Chongzuo biodiversity research base made the announcement.

The mandible's discovery strongly proves the Theory of Multiregional Evolution where the evolution of humans began 2.5 million years ago, and makes it more credible than the Out-of-Africa Theory, where homo sapiens originated from Africa.

The Mulanshan Homo sapiens cave has been excavated since fossils from apes and Asian elephants were discovered there in 2007. Two humans teeth and some mammal's fossils were discovered in November 2007, and a homo sapiens' mandible and many animal fossils in the same age were discovered in May 2008.