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Maba Man and Shixia Site 马坝人—石峡遗址Mǎbàrén Shíxiá Yízhǐ
National heritage site · Shaoguan, Guangdong
- Time needed
- 1–2 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Shaoguan
- Region
- Guangdong
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Maba Man and Shixia Site
Shizi Yan, a pair of limestone hills near Maba, is where in 1958 farmers found in a cave the skull of 'Maba Man', an archaic human intermediate between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens, and where a Neolithic settlement and cemetery, the type site of the Shixia culture, was excavated from 1973. A site park with the Maba Man Museum now surrounds the hills.
How to get to Maba Man and Shixia Site
About 3 km south-west of Maba town in Qujiang district, roughly 20 km by road south of central Shaoguan. The museum is closed on Mondays except public holidays.
Nearby
- Mount Danxia 丹霞山 40 km
Red sandstone cliffs and flat-topped peaks that gave the 'Danxia' landform its name
Also within 20 km: Caoxi Hot Spring Holiday Resort 曹溪温泉假日度假村 (under 10 km), Nanhua Temple 南华寺 (under 10 km).
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