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CHONGQING, Dec. 10 (Xinhuanet) -- 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. Enditem
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