Chinese archeology seeks to source human history in Africa

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Archaeologists in China came to Kenya on Sunday in a two-month expedition to track the origins of modern humans.

Previously, East Africa has become a hot spot in human evolutionary research since the 1950s.

Accordingly, in this journey, the Chinese team will work with the Kenya National Museum to excavate an area in Rift Valley, Africa, working on an area of ​​200 square meters on an ancient site distributed. Currently in 2016, Mr. Li Zhanyang, team leader and researcher at the Institute of Cultural and Archaeological Heritage in China's central Henan Province said in a statement.

The team will also explore the land in an area of ​​20 square kilometers for the rest related to the history of ancient humans once lived near Lake Baringo and Bogoria.

In short preliminary surveys in April and May in Africa, 40 stone tools believed to be Sangoan Paleolithic Sangoan culture (200,000-300,000 years ago) were collected.

Mr. Li, who discovered the skull fossil in 2007 and 2014 in Hekou, China said that Sangoan culture is related to the origin of modern Chinese people and that is one of the goals of this excavation.

The comparison of the origins and characteristics of Chinese and African prehistoric people is necessary because the Xuchang people (dating back more than 100,000 years old) have appeared in Africa to share similarities with the current human Great in North China, Li said.