Question

​The Homo erectus fossils from the Lantian sites in China are dated to______ years old. ​

A) 500,000
B) ​800,000 to 450,000
C) ​300,000-200,000 ​
D)1.65 million – 1.54 million
E) ​2.3 million – 1.8 million

Answer 1

Lantin County is where fossils of the H o m o erectus, now called Lantin Man, were discovered in 1964. The oldest fossil, a skull, was initially dated to 1.15 million years ago. In 2001, geologist Zhu and other scientists began researching the site again, and determined that the skull was 1.63 million years old.