New studies discover that the “Man of Beijing” is much more old than he thought
Homo erectus known popularly like the “man Beijing”, by the zone in that were their rest, could have inhabited the Earth for 750,000 years, long before which it was believed until now, as it assures a study that publishes the British magazine “Nature today”.
This is the conclusion at which they have arrived an equipment from investigators of the University of Nanjing (China) led by Guanjun Shen, which they have analyzed fossils found in the Chinese locality of Zhoukoudian with a new method that evaluates the degree of radioactive disintegration of isotopes of aluminum and present beryllium in quartz grains of the zone.
Until now, the scientists had used different techniques to study these sediments, without managing to accurately settle down the real age of the “man of Beijing”.
By virtue of the new discovery, the “man of Beijing” would count at the moment on 750,000 years of age, 200,000 years more than he was believed. Thus, it would be also demonstrated that the homínidos ones inhabited in Asia during the periods glaciers and interglaciers, supporting the extreme temperatures of the time. These results abren the door to a new investigation on the chronology of the human evolution in the Far East.
The fossil rest of the “man of Beijing” were shortages in 1921 in Zhoukoudian, a locality near the Chinese capital in which the vestiges of near 40 units of homo erectus have been detected to date.
Nevertheless, the first rest of homo erectus were shortages in 1892 in the Indonesia island of Java by the archaeologist Eugène Dubois, whom the term coined being based on the length and the firmness of the found bones.
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