China

Dating

Location

The year of finding

Brain volume
from 1.63 to 0.3 million years ago

Gongwangling, Yuanmou, Yuxian, Zhoukoudian

from 1921

from 1030 to 1173 cc
The oldest evidence of East Asian settlement is between 1.7 and 1.6 million years old, and the oldest hominin remains, 1.63 million years old, were found at the Gongwangling site. One of the richest sites of hominin remains in East Asia is Zhoukoudian, near Beijing.