N Korean archeologists say found East Asia's oldest human relics.

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PYONGYANG, October 26 (Itar-Tass) - North Korean archeologists says
they have found what appears to be East Asia's oldest relics of a Homo
Sapiens man, Korean Central News Agency /KCNA/ said.

The sensational find was made in the Chonbadae limestone cave in the
province of Hwanghae-bukdo /North Hwanghae/.
In the course of excavation works there, the scientists found seven
fragments of bones that used to belong to five different human species, as
well as stone tools - cutters, choppers, scrapers, and prods - of the
Paleolithic era.
Experts from the Kim Il Sung University say the Hwangdu man lived
60,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Local researchers indicate that the cave is located not far from the
Black Anvil Paleolithic site, the oldest architectural monument on Korean
Peninsula.
North Korean media claim in this connection that people would settle
in the Taedong River basin with the center in Pyongyang from the very
inception of the human race and they produced an authentic culture there.
North Korean historians have been actively developing the idea of a
separate Taedong culture as one of the cradles of human civilization as of
the second half of the 1990's. The fundamental postulation of this theory
regards the Pyongyang area not only as a homeland of Korean statehood but
also as one of the places of humankind's emergence.
Under the official version of history, the first proto-Korean state -
the Ancient Chosun - was founded here at he beginning of the 3rd
millennium BC. The grave of its legendary founding father, Tangun Wanggom
was discovered in 1993 "under the responsive guidance of President Kim Il
Sung."