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Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 19:21:57 EDT



CHINA UNEARTHS BONES OF NEOLITHIC GIANT
Archaeologists in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, have
unearthed remains of a 180-centimeter-tall man (equates to a 6ft tall man - fs)
from a tomb dating back more than 6,000 years.
"Such a tall man was seen rarely in south China in ancient times," said Huang
Xin, head of the Cultural Relics Management Institute of Youjiang District,
Baise City. Huang is one of the archaeologists who took part in the recent
excavation at the Neolithic site in Gongyuan Village, Yangxu Town of Baise
City.
Huang said they were amazed to see the bones of ancient people scattering at
the site are thicker than that of modern people, and they were even awestruck
by a stone totem in the shape of penis unearthed from the site.
Apart from remains of human beings, archaeologists also found a large number
of stone tools such as stone hammers and chisels, and remains of wildlife
like bears, monkeys and deer.
With an area of 800 sq km, the Baise Basin, where the Neolithic site is
located, lies between South China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Southeast Asia, a
crucial location in the study of the origins, evolution and migration of
ancient peoples, experts said.
Archaeologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences spotted stone implements
in a Paleolithic site, dating back 800,000 years, in Baise in 1973. The
finding suggested that ancient residents in Asia had the same ability to make
tools as ancient Africans, thus doing away with the "Movius line" theory, which
labels East Asia as culturally stagnant whreas western Eurasia and Africa as
progressive, according to experts.
Whether the discovery of these Neolithic graves and the remains of an ancient
very large man can lead to a conclusion that a kind of tall ancient race
that lived in the Youjiang River Valley thousands of years ago requires further
study, said Huang
ains of Neolithic Titan discovered in Guangxi)
Archaeologists in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, have
unearthed remains of a 180-centimeter-tall man (equates to a 6ft tall man - fs)
from a tomb dating back more than 6,000 years.
"Such a tall man was seen rarely in south China in ancient times," said Huang
Xin, head of the Cultural Relics Management Institute of Youjiang District,
Baise City. Huang is one of the archaeologists who took part in the recent
excavation at the Neolithic site in Gongyuan Village, Yangxu Town of Baise
City.
Huang said they were amazed to see the bones of ancient people scattering at
the site are thicker than that of modern people, and they were even awestruck
by a stone totem in the shape of penis unearthed from the site.
Apart from remains of human beings, archaeologists also found a large number
of stone tools such as stone hammers and chisels, and remains of wildlife
like bears, monkeys and deer.
With an area of 800 sq km, the Baise Basin, where the Neolithic site is
located, lies between South China's Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Southeast Asia, a
crucial location in the study of the origins, evolution and migration of
ancient peoples, experts said.
Archaeologists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences spotted stone implements
in a Paleolithic site, dating back 800,000 years, in Baise in 1973. The
finding suggested that ancient residents in Asia had the same ability to make
tools as ancient Africans, thus doing away with the "Movius line" theory, which
labels East Asia as culturally stagnant whreas western Eurasia and Africa as
progressive, according to experts.
Whether the discovery of these Neolithic graves and the remains of an ancient
very large man can lead to a conclusion that a kind of tall ancient race
that lived in the Youjiang River Valley thousands of years ago requires further
study, said Huang

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