2007年—2014年,在河南许昌灵井遗址发现了两件距今10万年左右的人类头骨化石,相关论文2017年3月3日发表于《Science》杂志.研究显示,许昌人头骨呈现出东亚古人类、欧亚大陆西部尼安德特人和晚更新世早期现代人镶嵌的形态特征.目前还无法将其归入任何已知的古人类成员之中,许昌人可能代表一种新型的古老型人类.许昌人化石复杂的体质特征反映出晚更新世早期中国古人类的演化模式,同时也为研究中国古人类地区的连续性以及人群之间的交流提供了一定程度的支持.%During 2007 and 2014, two human crania dating around 100,000 years old, were found in the Lingjing site, Xuchang, Henan Province. This paper published in Science, 03 March 2017. Research shows that the Xuchang crania display mosaic morphological features of earlier eastern Eurasian humans, western Eurasia Neandertals and early Late Pleistocene modern humans. It is unable to classify it to any known ancient human groups; thus the Xuchang humans might represent a new type of archaic humans. This morphological combination reflects Late Pleistocene human evolutionary patterns of Chinese human fossils, and provide a certain degree support both regional continuity and interregional population dynamics.
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