Hualong Cave (simplified Chinese: 华龙洞; traditional Chinese: 華龍洞; pinyin: huálóng dòng; lit. 'flowery/elegant dragon cave') is a cave in Pangwang village in Dongzhi County, Anhui Province, China, and situated on the southern bank of Yangtze.[1] It is located on the side of Meiyuan Hill. Palaeontological interest started in 2004 when a farmer accidentally found bones that were later identified as mammalian fossils.[2] Excavations started in 2006 by paleontologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[3] It has yielded many stone tools and over 30 human fossils, and animal bones including those of Ailuropoda, Arctonyx, Bubalus, Sinomegaceros, Stegodon, giant tapir, and giant pandas. The most notable fossils are those of the Hualongdong people,[4] including Homo erectus (dubbed Dongzhi Man) described in 2014,[5] and that of a 300,000-year-old archaic human discovered in 2019.[6]
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HualongCave (simplified Chinese: 华龙洞; traditional Chinese: 華龍洞; pinyin: huálóng dòng; lit. 'flowery/elegant dragon cave') is a cave in Pangwang village...
the Chinese Academy of Sciences, from the HualongCave (pinyin: huálóng dòng; lit.'flowery/elegant dragon cave') in Dongzhi County at Anhui Province in...
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the key birthplaces of Chinese ancient culture. Here are the primitive caves of 25,000 years ago, the overlapping strata of the Yangshao Culture, Longshan...
surrendered, but spared Old Teaching Khafiya and Sunni Gedimu rebels. Ma Hualong belonged to the New Teaching school of thought, and Zuo executed him, while...
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