Yunxian Man

Yunxian Man (Chinese: 郧县人; pinyin: Yúnxiàn rén) is a set of three hominid skull fossils discovered at the Xuetangliangzi site (学堂梁子遗址; Xuétángliángzǐ Yízhǐ) in Yunyang district, Hubei, China.

[8][9] Adjacent animal fossils allowed their age to be narrowed down to 600,000 to 400,000 years before present.

[10] Some sources have described the specimens as Homo erectus, including a 3D virtual imaging analysis in 2010.

[11] However, scholars are still divided, with some suggesting that it could be a more modern species or a mix with Homo sapiens.

[7][5] The paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer has suggested that Yunxian Man could be Homo heidelbergensis, which may thus have originated in Asia, though Chinese scholars dispute this classification.