China Focus: Human skull unearthed near north China border confirmed to be 10,000 years old

 

Photo taken on Jan. 8, 2019 shows a view of Jalainur Museum in Manzhouli, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A carbon-14 dating study on four skull samples discovered at Jalainur District, Manzhouli City in northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region confirmed the earliest sample was around 10,113 years old, researchers announced Saturday in Beijing. Jalainur, a county-level district under the jurisdiction of Manzhouli City, is located near Russia and Mongolia. Starting in March 2018, the study was jointly conducted by researchers from Peking University (PKU) and the school of archaeology at Jilin University. (Xinhua/Darhan)