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Re: Please explain more

Posted By: wingchuntaiji
Posted Date: Dec 01, 2007 (03:25 AM)

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Dear Anita,

Your information has been outdated! I know of the 400,000 years old Peking Man that was discovered around Beijing area. I had a picture with the famous Peking Man cast next to my head in 1992.

Lucy was discovered in Ethiopia in 1974. It was at first thought to be of 900,000 years old, but it later on was confirmed to be 3.2 million years old. There was a flat-faced homino even older than Lucy.
Two major discoveries in Kenya have added to the debate about the human family tree. In October 2000 the Kenyan Palaeontology Expedition, composed of Kenyan and French scientists, discovered 13 fossil fragments in the rocks of the Tugen hills. These rocks are known to be six million years old, and if the Orrorin tugenensis is recognised by the scientific community, it will become the earliest example of bipedalism yet discovered. At the moment Ardipithicus ramidus, dated to around 4.5 m.y.a. (million years ago), holds this title.

At first I thought of what I read about the migration of human from Africa to the Middle East, and from the Middle East to Indochina/Himalaya. About 50,000 years ago, some migrated to Mongolia and settled at the Central Plain of Henan. Some traveled to the South East side of China. Another branch from Indiochina/Himalaya branched out to Malaysia, Borneo, and Australia.

But, I read of some latest discovery that made me reconsidered what composed of China's indigenius/aboriginal people. I 'll post that in the next message.

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