Liujiang skull bead

A Liujiang skull bead made for my Chinese friend, Wahyu, who lives in Indonesia, and wanted a skull of his ancient ancestors.

The Liujiang men  are among the earliest modern humans found in East Asia.   Their remains were discovered in the Tongtianyang Cave in Liujiang County, Guangxi,  China. Liujiang man is a Late Pleistocene Homo sapiens sapiens. The remains were excavated in 1958. The remains consist of a well-preserved adult cranium,  a right hip bone, complete sacrum, multiple vertebrae,  and two femoral  fragments. All remains are believed to belong to one individual.  There seems to be a discrepancy in determining accurate dates of the specimen due to the unknown stratigraphic context in which the remains were found. The date most commonly attributed to the remains is 67,000 BP. High rates of variability yielded by various dating techniques carried out by different researchers place the most widely accepted range of dates with 67,000 BP as a minimum, but does not rule out dates as old as 159,000 BP.