The Harbin cranium is a large, almost complete human skull found in 1933 in the city of Harbin in northeastern China, then under Japanese occupation. The worker who found it hid it in a well, and it came to light only in 2018, when his family handed it over to scholars. It is more than 140,000 years old and has a very large braincase, heavy brow ridges and a broad face. In 2021 it was named Homo longi, or Dragon Man, and presented as a possible new human species, but studies of proteins and ancient DNA in 2025 linked it to the Denisovans. This suggests that Denisovans lived across a wide part of Asia.
Before and after
- 26 September 1932Birth of Manmohan Singh
- from November 1932 to December 1932Emu War
- 4 November 1932Construction of Stadio Olimpico
- 20 November 1932Construction of Estádio Couto Pereira
- 1933Discovery of Harbin cranium
- 1933Construction of Sydney Airport
- 1933Origins of Ligue 2
- from 1933 to 1945The Holocaust
- 1933Construction of Lacoste
More in Evolution & life
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- 28 November 1924Discovery of Taung Child
- 2 December 1929A skull of Peking Man is found at Zhoukoudian
- 7 October 1935Discovery of Loschbour man
- 7 September 1936The last thylacine dies in captivity
- from 18 May 1944 to 20 May 1944Deportation of the Crimean Tatars
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