Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archaeology at Peking University

金牛山人頭骨

　　舊石器時代早期

　　長20.4，寬14.9厘米

　　1984年10月2日北京大學考古系在遼寧省營口縣金牛山發掘出土

　　1984年9月27日至10月6日，在遼寧省營口縣金牛山A地點的洞穴堆積中，發現了一批人類化石。其中有較完整的頭骨（缺下頜）、脊椎骨、肋骨、尺骨、髖骨、髕骨、手骨和足骨等共50余件，屬一青年男性個體。金牛山人的頭骨既保留部份直立人的原始性質，又帶有某些進步特徵，代表了從直立人向早期智人過渡的中間類型。根據下部堆積的地層和共存的動物化石，其地質年代為中更新世晚期。鈾系法年代测定，距今約28，000年。

　　Frontal View of Skull of Jinniushan Man

　　Lower

　　Paleolithic Period

　　Length:

　　20.4 cm width: 14.9 cm

　　Jinniushan,

　　Yingkou County, Liaoning Province

　　Excavated October 2, 1984. Department of

　　Archaeology, Peking University

　　The

　　Jinniushan Man fossils were uncovered between September 27 and October 6, 1984 in stratified cave deposits at location A of Jinniushan, near Xidiantun Village, in Yingkou County, Liaoning province. More than fifty fossils found there include a complete skull cap, a backbone, ribs, an ulna, a patella, a hip bone and bones from hands and feet. All of the remains belong to a single young adult male. The fact that the skull cap of Jinniushan Man retains a little of the primitive qualities of Homo erectus but also exhibits some progressive traits suggests that Jinniushan Man is a hominid type that falls between Homo erectus and early Homo sapiens. Based upon an analysis of the stratigraphy and the associated fauna, the date of the fossils is the late Middle Pleistocene. Uranium series testing produced a date of 280,000 years ago.