Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1992, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (01): 10-12.

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The human fossils of Gezi Cave, Liaoning Province

Lu Zun'e   

  • Online:1992-03-15 Published:1992-03-15

Abstract: In the autumn of 1983, the author identified some human fossils fromthe fossil fragmentbones which had been excavated from the Gezi cave palaeolithic site in 1973 and 1975. The human fossils include a fragment of parietal, a fragment of temporal and a patella. They are slightly fossilized and greyish-yellow in colour. The fragment of parietal is' the back part ofthe right pasietal bone, 59.5 mm. in length, 39.4 mm. in width, and 5.1 mm.1n thickness.Thefragment of temporal is thepart of the mastoid process. The patella has a light damage onits facies articularis. The surface of patella is rough with height 45 mm., width45 mm. and thickness 21 mm., W/H index is 100. The fossil patella is very close to that ofthe modern man and different from that of the Jinniushan man. The human fossils be-long to Homo sapiens of Late Pleistocene.

Key words: Home sapiens; Late Pleistocene