早期人类在中国境内扩散和分布的趋势

TRENDS OF DISTRIBUTION OF EARLY MAN IN CHINA

本文根据早期人类化石的形态序列和时间序列,结合化石地点的地理位置探讨了早期人类在中国境内扩散和分布的趋势。

Based on the temporal and morphological sequence of early man in China and their ge-ographical position, this paper suggests that early man spread from south to north in China. They were restricted to south of Yangtze River in the Early Pleistocene, then dispersed to the north of Qinling Mountain and south of Yellow River in the early Middle Pleistocene. Later, Peking Man spread further to the north of Yellow River and arrived at N 40? the northern limit of Homo erectus so far known in China.