Liujiang District ( simplified Chinese : 柳江区 ; traditional Chinese : 柳江區 ; pinyin : Liǔjiāng Qū ; Standard Zhuang : Liujgyangh Gih ) is under the administration of Liuzhou , Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region , China, located on the southwest bank of the Liu River . It covers a land area of 2,504 square kilometres (967 sq mi) and had a population of 562,351 as of 2010. The southernmost county-level division of Liuzhou City, it lies south of Liuzhou's city proper, bordering the prefecture-level cities of Laibin to the south and Hechi to the northwest.
6-522: Liujiang consists of 8 towns: Labao (拉堡镇), Baipeng (百朋镇), Chengtuan (成团镇), Sandu (三都镇), Ligao (里高镇), Jiangde (进德镇), Chuanshan (穿山镇), Shibo (土博镇) These findings might give some support to the claim that modern humans from Africa arrived at southern China about 100,000 years BP ( Zhiren Cave , Chongzuo City: 100,000 years BP; and the Liujiang hominid : controversially dated at 139,000–111,000 years BP ). This Guangxi location article
12-537: A continuous layer of flowstone , a layer that was initially dated to around 113,000 to 100,000 BP . A more thorough re-dating was later undertaken, and gives an estimated date of around 116,000 to 106,000 BP. Some of the large mammal remains discovered at Zhiren Cave include those from Pongo pygmaeus , Elephas kiangnanensis , Elephas maximus , Megatapirus augustus , Rhinoceros sinensis , Megalovis guangxiensis , Cervus unicolor , Ursus thibetanus , Arctonyx collaris and Panthera pardus . Around 25% of
18-678: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Zhiren Cave Zhiren Cave ( Chinese : 智人洞 ) is a karstic cave in the Mulan Mountains that overlooks the Hejiang River in Chongzuo , Guangxi , China. Zhiren Cave is an early Late Pleistocene site that has yielded the fossil remains of possibly anatomically modern humans with some mixed archaic human features. The fossil remains were discovered by Chinese paleontologists in 2007. The fossils were covered by
24-549: The comparative context is lacking in East Asian Late Pleistocene fossils. Zhiren 2 shows evidence for dental winging in its lower incisors, a feature that has only been found in Homo sapiens . Zhiren 3 contains a mix of archaic and modern human features. The most significant aspect of Zhiren 3 is that it has a distinctively modern human chin. Coupled with the dating, Zhiren 3 could possibly represent
30-460: The earliest modern human fossil in East Asia. However, many were skeptical of this conclusion, since this would significantly push back the general consensus on the dating of human migration out of Africa . Peter Bellwood also cites the lack of archaeological finds (such as Neanderthal stone tools or tooth pendants) associated with the fossils. This article relating to archaeology in
36-514: The large mammal species discovered at the site are now extinct. Three pieces of hominin remains were identified: two upper molars ( Zhiren 1 and Zhiren 2 ) and an anterior mandible ( Zhiren 3 ). The fossils are believed to have belonged to at least two different individuals, as Zhiren 1 and Zhiren 3 are unlikely to have come from the same individual. When compared to Late Pleistocene fossils from western Eurasia, Zhiren 1 and Zhiren 2 are smaller and would be classified as modern; however,
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