can you direct me to some reading on prehistory chins, 800,000 years ago
Prehistoric China 800,000 years ago
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, Aug 20 2007 09:02 PM
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 09:02 PM
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 10:29 PM
Gosh, that's almost a million years ago. Humans weren't even around then.
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 10:37 PM
let's drop one zero. 80,000. That's Neanderthals' time.
drop another one, 8000. That's the end of ice age, great flood, and real old stoneage.
mythology doesn't even go back that far.
drop another one, 8000. That's the end of ice age, great flood, and real old stoneage.
mythology doesn't even go back that far.
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Posted 20 August 2007 - 11:08 PM
That depends on what one means by human beings though. 800,000 years ago fall into the old stone age, IIRC.
In any case, if the CHF member dynamic is interested to know what the land known as China was like 800,000 years ago, what are the references available today?
In any case, if the CHF member dynamic is interested to know what the land known as China was like 800,000 years ago, what are the references available today?
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Posted 02 September 2007 - 07:33 AM
800,000 years ago maybe god was born? and decide to have a son 797,993 years later
Edited by WhereMyRiceGo, 02 September 2007 - 07:35 AM.
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Posted 09 September 2007 - 01:32 PM
The geography of China could have been quite different due to North and South China originally being separate which later joined due to continental drift from Pangea. Not sure if 800k years ago it was the same way it was today.
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Posted 18 September 2007 - 06:00 PM
The geography of China could have been quite different due to North and South China originally being separate which later joined due to continental drift from Pangea. Not sure if 800k years ago it was the same way it was today.
Most likely, it was. Continental drifting only does about 2cm - 3cm a year so it wouldn't have done much in just 800,000 years. We need to go back to 10's of millions of years in other to see the drastic differences in landscape.
Anyway, other than skulls (most likely our ancestors) that are like 4-6 million years old, found in China, there really isn't much to refer to. Humans didn't really start to record history till around the last ice age with cave paintings and stuff like that.
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Posted 02 November 2007 - 07:27 AM
The Pekin man was around 600,000 years ago, as other homo erectus like Yuanmou man, maybe member Dynamic wanted to know about homo erectus in what is today China. Just a side note, Pekin man and other homo erectus are now be considered as extinted species by many genecists, they did not evolve into modern human.
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