China Daily丨湖北发现百万年前人类头骨化石

记者从国家文物局28日举行的“考古中国”重大项目发布会上获悉，湖北学堂梁子遗址发现1具古人类头骨化石，命名为“郧县人3号头骨”。这是迄今欧亚内陆发现的同时代最为完整的直立人头骨化石。

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Archaeologists and paleontologists recently discovered a roughly 1-million-year-old human skull fossil in Central China's Hubei province, possibly offering a monumental clue in the study of the evolution of Homo erectus in East Asia, according to a news conference of the National Cultural Heritage Administration in Beijing on Wednesday.

据周三在北京举行的国家文化遗产管理局新闻发布会称，考古学家和古生物学家最近在中国中部湖北省发现了一块大约100万年前的人类头骨化石，可能为东亚直立人的进化研究提供了一条不朽的线索。

The well-preserved fossil was found on May 18 in an excavation site known as Xuetangliangzi in the city of Shiyan's Yunyang district. Sediment samples have since been extracted for laboratory analysis to assist in dating the fossil, according to Gao Xing, a researcher with the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

这具保存完好的化石于5月18日在十堰市云阳区的一个名为雪塘梁子的挖掘点被发现。据中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所研究员高星介绍，沉积物样本已被提取用于实验室分析，以帮助确定化石的年代。

The skull has not been fully excavated from the ground yet, but the part that has been exposed so far, including the frontal bone, eye sockets and left cheekbone and temporal bone, indicate that the skull's structure is intact.

头骨尚未完全从地面挖掘出来，但迄今为止暴露出来的部分，包括额骨、眼窝、左颧骨和颞骨，表明头骨的结构完好无损。

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