Here are the new laureates:
1. Xuetangliangzi site, Shiyan, Hubei province, from about 1 million years ago
The excavated archaic human skull from 1 million years ago is the best preserved fossil of its kind ever discovered in the hinterlands of the Eurasian continent and has provided key clues in the studies of human evolution.
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