Archaeologists in China have uncovered a human skull that is almost unimaginably old. While performing excavations in the central province of Hubei, a team of researchers affiliated with the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology found a complete skull they identified as belonging to an archaic human who lived approximately one million years ago, during the Middle Pleistocene Epoch.

While fossilized bones from ancient hominins have been found many times before, this is the most complete archaic human skull that has been discovered dating back that far in time.

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The Hubei Daily reports that the fossilized skull was excavated at the Xuetang Liangzi site in the city of Shiyan. The skull, which has been dubbed the “Yunxian Man,” was identified has having belonged to an archaic hominin known as Homo erectus , which first appeared on the earth about two million years ago.

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