China’s ancient skull fossil trove got a new member after a 1-million-year-old skull was unearthed in Hubei Province on December 3, 2022. The newly discovered skull is thought to be the most intact Homo erectus skull of its age found on the Eurasian continent to date.
Dubbed the “No.3 Skull of Yunxian Man,” it was found at the Xuetangliangzi site, an early Paleolithic site in Yunyang District of Shiyan City. In 1989 and 1990, two other skulls were excavated there, about 35 meters away from this newly discovered fossil.
