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Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum

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Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
Nanjing Homo Erectus Fossil Site Museum
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Nanjing Man Fossil Site ,Tangshan Town, Jiangning District, Nanjing 211131, China

Nanjing Man is a subspecies of Homo erectus found in China. Large fragments of one male and one female skull and a molar tooth of H. e. nankinensis were discovered in 1993 in the Hulu cave on the Tangshan hills near Nanjing, the former capital city of China. The term Nanjing man is used to describe the subspecies of Homo erectus but is also used when referring to the three fossils. The specimens were found in the Hulu limestone cave at a depth of 60–97 cm by Liu Luhong, a local worker. Dating the fossils yielded an estimated age of 580,000 to 620,000 years old.
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