Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  There may still be vanished human species unknown to scientists. A research team has discovered an unusual 300,000-year-old jawbone with an unexpected combination of archaic and modern human features. A computer reconstruction of the skull and jaw fragments unearthed in China. New fossil fragments suggest the skull could have come […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Two ancient shipwrecks, most likely dated to the mid-Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), were discovered about 1,500 meters under the sea level in South China Sea, the coastal city of Sanya, Hainan province. Over 100,000 cultural relics, mainly porcelains – recently found on Northeast Continental Slope No 1 Shipwreck of the South China […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest known saddle. The well-preserved soft leather saddle recovered from the tomb of a female deceased at the Yanghai cemetery site in the Turfan Basin at the eastern end of the Tian Shan mountains. Researchers have now presented a detailed analysis describing […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Archaeologists excavating in the province of Shandong, China, have unearthed 12 incredible tombs estimated to be around 700 years old.  It is one of the most important finds ever made in the eastern Chinese province. According to experts, the tombs date back to the last years of the Yuan Dynasty […]

Conny Waters – AncientPages.com – Scientists say they are investigating a 1-million-year-old human skull that gives a remarkable opportunity to get more insight into the complex history of human evolution. The discovery of the well-preserved fossil, named No 3 skull of Yunxian Man, occurred at an excavation site known as Xuetangliangzi in Yunyang district, Shiyan […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – The sustainable development of agriculture has laid a solid foundation for the birth of human civilization and countries. Early agriculture has long been a focus of archaeology. China is the only country in the world with two independent agricultural systems, that is, rice farming in the south and millet farming […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com –  The quest to identify humans’ oldest continues. As scientists explore the realm of animals that lived on this planet millions of years ago, the evolution picture becomes more complete. Life reconstruction of Fanjingshania renovata. Credit: Zhang Heming Living sharks are often portrayed as the apex predators of the marine realm. […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published July 14 in the journal Current Biology, suggests that the mysterious hominin belonged to an extinct maternal branch of modern humans that might have contributed to the origin […]

Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Scientists have just published a study of what may prove to be China’s most ancient human fossil. Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), as part of a team of Chinese, Spanish, and French scientists employed microCT, geometric morphometry, and classical morphology techniques to investigate […]