Tianyuan Cave () is near
Beijing
Beijing, Chinese postal romanization, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital city of China. With more than 22 million residents, it is the world's List of national capitals by population, most populous national capital city as well as ...
(not in
Tianyuan District
Tianyuan District () is one of four urban districts of Zhuzhou City, Hunan province, China. The district was formed on May 31, 1997. Its name derives from Tian-tai Mountain () and Yuan-yi Farm (), which were two important places then, taking th ...
), where
Tianyuan man, one of the earliest modern
human
Humans (''Homo sapiens'') or modern humans are the most common and widespread species of primate, and the last surviving species of the genus ''Homo''. They are Hominidae, great apes characterized by their Prehistory of nakedness and clothing ...
s, was found.
The remains in the Tianyuan Cave have ancestral relations "to many present-day Asians and Native Americans".
See also
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Niah Caves
Niah National Park, located within Miri Division, Sarawak, Malaysia, is the site of the Niah Caves which are an archeological site.
History
Alfred Russel Wallace lived for 8 months at Simunjan District with a mining engineer, Robert Coulson, ...
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Fuyan Cave
Fuyan Cave () is a complex of limestone caves in Tangbei village, Lefutang town, Daoxian, Hunan province, south central China famous for the discovery of the oldest evidence for unambiguously fully modern humans outside Africa. 47 human teeth, da ...
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Ancient human unearthed in ChinaTianyuan, mtDNA B and the formation of Far Eastern peoples
Caves of Beijing
Archaeological sites in China
Paleolithic sites
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