Chinese Roots: Skull may complicate human-origins debate
By Bruce Bower
In 1958, farm workers digging in a cave in southern China’s Liujiang County discovered several human bones including a skull. Relying on its resemblance to securely dated human fossils in Japan, scientists assigned this Homo sapiens skull an age of 20,000 to 30,000 years.
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However, the Liujiang finds may be much older than that, according to a report in the December Journal of Human Evolution.