Chinese Prehistory — Political, Social, Cultural, Historical Analysis Of China

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The origin of the Mongoloid people may or may not be related to the sinanthropus shoukoutien (300-500 thousand years old), the homo erectus pekinensis found in today's Zhoukoudian, near Beijing (Peking). As archaeologists and anthropologists pointed out, modern men did not come from homo erectus, nor homo sapiens (80-200 thousand years ago), but homo sapiens sapiens (20-70 thousand years ago), instead. Recent DNA tests had provided clues that the Chinese males' genes do share one similar feature with the Africans, proving that mankind did come out of Africa. Mankind became active on the globe only after the dissipation in 9000 BC of the last Ice Age, last one of the 17-19 glaciations extending from 3 million years ago. This timeframe would be labeled the Upper Palaeolithic. 15-30 thousand years ago, the Mongoloid people [i.e., actually the Q-haplogroup people who were a mixture with the Mongoloid of Northeast Asia] had started to cross the Bering Straits.

(Some purported DNA analysis led to a conclusion that about 10 hunters, with 3-4 males, followed reindeers across the Bering land-bridge to American continent by taking advantage of the window of opportunity between the last two glaciers.) The Mongoloid would come into tribal shapes, and they then went though the Neolithic Age and the Bronze & Iron Age. Historians, before the emergence of the DNA technology, had claimed that the human genome had taken shape about 10,000 years ago. The limited varieties in the human races could also point to the intense competiton and hostility between those early human beings during the long years of evolution. Mainly in Asian and American continents, the Mongoloids established their lasting home bases.

To better understand the origin of Mongoloid, a study of the topic as to the southern origin of Mongoloid is a must: Y-Chromosome Evidence of Southern Origin of the East Asian-Specific Haplogroup O3-M122; Genetic Structure of Hmong-Mien Speaking Populations in East Asia as Revealed by mtDNA Lineages; The Three O3-Haplogroup Brotherly Tribes of Mon-Khmers, Hmong-Mien and Sino-Tibetans; Inferring human history in East Asia from Y chromosomes.