Wushan Man

Wushan Man
	Wushan Man fossil at Three Gorges Museum
Common name	Wushan Man
Species	Hominidae, species uncertain
Age	c. 2 million years
Place discovered	Chongqing, China
Date discovered	1985

Wushan Man (Chinese: 巫山人; pinyin: Wūshānrén, literally "Shaman Mountain Man") is a set of fossilised remains of an extinct, undetermined non-hominin ape found in central China in 1985. The remains are dated to around 2 million years ago and were originally considered to represent a subspecies of Homo erectus (H. e. wushanensis).^[1]^[2]

The fossils were found in 1985 in Longgupo (龙骨坡 or "Dragon Bone Slope"), Zhenlongping Village, Miaoyu Town of Wushan County, Chongqing in the Three Gorges.

^ Ciochon RL. (2009). "The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia. Nature. 459: 910-911. doi:10.1038/459910a. This piece in Nature is based on a contribution to the forthcoming book" Out of Africa I: Who, When and Where? (eds, Fleagle, J. G. et al. Springer, 2009)
^ Handwerk B. (2009). Early "Human" Is Ape After All, Discoverer Decides National Geographic News June 17, 2009

[Ciochon2-1] Ciochon RL. (2009). "The mystery ape of Pleistocene Asia. Nature. 459: 910-911. doi:10.1038/459910a. This piece in Nature is based on a contribution to the forthcoming book" Out of Africa I: Who, When and Where? (eds, Fleagle, J. G. et al. Springer, 2009)

[2] Handwerk B. (2009). Early "Human" Is Ape After All, Discoverer Decides National Geographic News June 17, 2009

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