Qualla: Xujiayao https://qualla.com/xujiayao en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Xujiayao https://qualla.com/xujiayao Xujiayao: Introduction https://qualla.com/xujiayao/ The skull fragments did not fit. When researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology discovered twenty hominin fossils at Xujiayao in the 1970s, the bones displayed a confounding mix of features: cranial vaults as thick as Homo erectus pekinensis, jaw structures more typical of modern Homo sapiens, and -- in one specimen -- an inner ear arranged in a pattern found only in Neanderthals. These were not quite any known species. In 2024, paleoanthropologists Wu and Bae designated them as the holotype of a new species: Homo juluensis, the "Big-headed Human."

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/1/h/xujiayao-wp/wx1h-xujiayao-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Xujiayao: The Basin of Deep Time https://qualla.com/xujiayao/ Xujiayao sits on the west bank of the Liyi River, a tributary of the Sanggan River, within the Nihewan Basin -- one of the most important paleoanthropological regions in East Asia. The basin straddles the border between Shanxi and Hebei provinces, and Xujiayao itself consists of ...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/1/h/xujiayao-wp/wx1h-xujiayao-the-basin-of-deep-time.mp3 0:06 2 full Xujiayao: A Species That Defies Classification https://qualla.com/xujiayao/ The twenty fossil fragments -- twelve parietal bones, two occipital bones, one temporal bone, a mandibular fragment, a juvenile maxilla, and three isolated teeth -- present a taxonomic puzzle. Dental analysis shows features shared with earlier East Asian hominins from the Early a...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/1/h/xujiayao-wp/wx1h-xujiayao-a-species-that-defies-classification.mp3 0:06 3 full Xujiayao: Hunters of the Pleistocene Steppe https://qualla.com/xujiayao/ The Xujiayao hominins were skilled horse hunters. Among the roughly 5,000 animal specimens recovered from the site, the vast majority belong to Przewalski's horse and the Asiatic wild ass, Equus hemionus. Woolly rhinoceros, antelopes, gazelles, red deer, sika deer, and pigs round...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/x/1/h/xujiayao-wp/wx1h-xujiayao-hunters-of-the-pleistocene-steppe.mp3 0:06 4 full Xujiayao: Rewriting the Human Story in East Asia https://qualla.com/xujiayao/ The 2024 designation of Homo juluensis proposes grouping the Xujiayao hominins with fossils from several other enigmatic East Asian sites, including the Lingjing site at Xuchang, the Xiahe mandible from Tibet, and the Penghu jaw from the Taiwan Strait, as well as with the Denisov...

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