A report on Lantian Man

Excavation of Lantian Man
Reconstruction of Lantian Man
Stone tools from the Middle Palaeolithic of Shaanxi

Subspecies of Homo erectus known from an almost complete mandible from Chenchiawo Village discovered in 1963, and a partial skull from Gongwangling(公王岭) Village discovered in 1964, situated in Lantian County on the Loess Plateau.

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Peking Man

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Subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian Cave of northern China during the Middle Pleistocene.

Subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited the Zhoukoudian Cave of northern China during the Middle Pleistocene.

Reconstruction of the first Peking Man skullcap
Bust of Peking Man at the National Museum of China
Zhoukoudian Locality 1 where the first relatively complete skullcap was discovered
Ernst Haeckel suggested early humans dispersed across the now-disproven hypothetical continent "Lemuria" (above).
1936 restorations of various fossil skulls (note the Piltdown Man was declared a hoax in 1953 and the Peking Man skull was revised in 1937 and again in 1996. )
Weidenreich's 1937 reconstruction of a female Peking Man skull
Cross sections of Peking Man Skulls III (A) and XII (B), and Java Man Skull II (C)
Mid-shaft cross-sections of Femora I, II, IV, V, and VI
Reconstruction of hyenas at the Zhoukoudian Museum
Scraper from the Zhoukoudian
An ash layer at Zhoukoudian
Skulls I and II
Skull II
Skull III
Skulls IV and V
Skulls V and VI
Skulls VI and VII
Skulls VIII and IX
Skull X
Skull XI
Skull XII
Maxillae from Skulls III, V, VI, and X
Femur I
Femora I and II
Femur III
Femur IV
Femur IV reconstructed
Femora V and VI
Femur VI
Femur VII
Humerus I
Humerus II
Humerus II reconstructed
Clavicle I

The productivity of the Zhoukoudian elicited strong palaeoanthropological interest in China, and 14 other fossil-bearing sites have since been discovered across the country as of 2016 in the Yuanmou, Tiandong, Jianshi, Yunxian, Lantian, Luonan, Yiyuan, Nanzhao, Nanjing, Hexian, and Dongzhi counties.

Homo erectus

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Extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago.

Extinct species of archaic human from the Pleistocene, with its earliest occurrence about 2 million years ago.

Java Man at Naturalis
Map of the distribution of Middle Pleistocene (Acheulean) cleaver finds
Dmanisi skull 3 (fossils skull D2700 and jaw D2735, two of several found in Dmanisi in the Georgian Transcaucasus)
Skull of H. e. pekinensis showing a flat face, pronounced brow ridge, and a sagittal keel
Skeleton and reconstruction of Turkana boy by Mauricio Antón
Female attributes of Homo erectus as described by sexual dimorphism
Front view of the Mojokerto child skull
Cross sections of Chinese H. erectus humeri (upper arm bones) showing extremely thickened cortical bone
Diagram of fossil trackways from 2 sites near Ileret, Kenya
H. erectus ate primarily large game, such as the straight-tusked elephant (above)
Reconstruction of a Terra Amata dwelling
Reconstruction of Turkana boy with light clothing by Adrie and Alfons Kennis at the Neanderthal Museum
Skull of a toothless H. e. georgicus
Homo erectus KNM ER 3733 actual skull
Homo erectus tautavelensis skull.
Replica of lower jaws of Homo erectus from Tautavel, France.
Calvaria "Sangiran II" original, collection Koenigswald, Senckenberg Museum.
A reconstruction based on evidence from the Daka Member, Ethiopia
Original fossils of Pithecanthropus erectus (now Homo erectus) found in Java in 1891.

Homo erectus lantianensis (Lantian Man, 1.6 Ma)

Shaanxi

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Landlocked province of the People's Republic of China.

Landlocked province of the People's Republic of China.

Shaanxi People's Government
Shaanxi cuisine
Terracotta Army
Education Department of Shaanxi Province
Shaanxi Science and Technology Museum
Temple of the Chenghuangshen (City God) of Weinan.
Guangren Temple of the Tibetan Buddhist tradition in Xi'an.
Road to the stupa of the Famen Temple (Chinese Buddhist).
Temple of Xuanyuan in Huangling, Yan'an.

The Lantian Man site, with hominin fossils of one million years ago, was found in Lantian County in northwestern Shaanxi province, near the city of Xi'an.

Shaanxi History Museum

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Located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.

Located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.

Main exhibition hall of the museum
Detail of the museum's architecture
Shaanxi History Museum plaque. Xi'an. 2011
Zhou Dynasty gold Bianzhong
Ceramic tomb figure of a horse in sancai glaze
Tomb figures of ladies
Gold stag with eagle's head and ten more heads in the antlers. Object inspired by Siberian Altai art. Nalinggaotu site, Shenmu County, near Xi'an.
Statues from Zhongshan Grottoes ({{lang|zh|钟山石窟}})
Painted tomb figures of guardians of Prince Qinjian from the Ming Dynasty
Soldiers from the Terracotta Army
Gilt silver jar with patterns of dancing horses, from the Tang Dynasty, Hejia Village hoard
Sculptures of the twelve Chinese zodiac figures, from the Tang Dynasty
The back of a Tang Dynasty bronze mirror
Tang Sancai tomb figures
An agate cup shaped in an animal head, from the Tang Dynasty, Hejia Village hoard

Fossils of the Lantian Man (preceded Peking Man),

Shangchen

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Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site in Lantian County, Shaanxi, China, some 25 km south of Weinan.

Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site in Lantian County, Shaanxi, China, some 25 km south of Weinan.

Lantian County is where fossils of the Homo erectus, now called Lantian Man, were discovered in 1964.