China hails "greatest discovery since Peking Man"

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China hails "greatest discovery since Peking Man"
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUST20581320080123
Jan 23, 2008


BEIJING (Reuters) - An almost complete human skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said on Wednesday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man ... find in Xuchang, in the central province of Henan ...

"We expect more discoveries of importance," Li Zhanyang, archaeologist ....

The fossil consists of 16 pieces of the skull with protruding eyebrows and a small forehead.

"More astonishing than the completeness of the skull is that it still has a fossilized membrane on the inner side, so scientists can track the nerves of the Paleolithic ancestors," ... and stone and bone artifacts were found.....

Peking Man was discovered in the 1920s near Beijing and dates back roughly to between 250,000 and 400,000 years.