Because it was found on the mountain northwest of Shangnabang village in Yuanmou county, Yunnan province, it was named "Homo erectus Yuanmou", commonly known as "Yuanmou Man". The word "Yuanmou" comes from Dai language, which means "steed".
1 may, 9651day Yuanmou man's tooth fossils were found in shangnabang village, Yuanmou county, Yunnan province. Yuanmou County is known as "the hometown of Yuanmou people". 1976 according to the paleomagnetic method, the life age is about 6,543,800+0.7 million years ago, and the difference between before and after is no more than/kloc-0.0 million years (some scholars think that its age should not exceed 730,000 years, that is, it may be 600,000 years ago to 500,000 years ago or later).
About 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, Yuanmou in Yunnan was a subtropical grassland and forest, where tertiary animals such as deer and ungulates lived and multiplied. After a while, early Pleistocene animals such as mulberry hyenas, Yunnan horses and Shanxi axis deer appeared in this grassland and forest.
Most of them are herbivores. Yuanmou people hunted with crude stone tools in order to survive. According to the unearthed two teeth, stone tools and carbon chips, as well as a small number of stone products, a large number of carbon chips and mammalian fossils unearthed in the same place later, it is proved that they are primitive humans who can make tools and use fire.
2. Lantian people
Yu 1964 was discovered in Gongwangling, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, hence the name "Lantian Man". Lantian people's life time was originally thought to be about 690,000 years ago to 950,000 years ago, but it was thought to be about 700,000 years ago to1150,000 years ago after re-determination.
1963 Lantian people were found near Chenjiawo Village, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, China. This fossil is the skull of a woman in her thirties. 1In July, 963, the vertebrate paleontology investigation team of the Institute of Paleoanthropology of China Academy of Sciences found an old female mandible fossil in Chenjiawo, Xiehu Town, which is 10 km northwest of Lantian County.
In May of the following year, a basically complete middle-aged female skull fossil was found in Gongwangling Formation. After the indoor restoration of this skull fossil, a complete ape-man skull fossil was restored. Former researcher Chen Jiang's mandible and Gong Wangling's skull were named Lantian Ape, or Lantian Man for short.
3. Beijingers
Beijingers, also known as Beijingers, are called Beijingers for short, and the scientific name is Homo erectus, also known as the Beijing species of Chinese apes. Did he live in the Pleistocene? Homo erectus (Paleolithic history). 1927 Fossil remains found in Gulong Mountain, Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing, China.
Beijingers have a clear division of labor between hands and feet and can make and use tools. But it still retains some characteristics of apes.
4. Hexian people
China Homo erectus fossils were found in Longtan Cave 198 1 on the northern slope of Wangjiashan, Taodian Town, Hexian County, Anhui Province. Including 1 nearly complete skull, 2 skull fragments, 1 mandibular fragments and 9 single teeth. The skull belongs to a young male individual, which has many characteristics similar to those of Beijingers, but it also has some progressive characteristics compared with Beijingers.
This shows that Hexian people are progressive homo erectus, which may be equivalent to the later Beijingers. The geological age of Hexian people is the Middle Pleistocene, and the dating results of uranium series method are 6.5438+0.9 million ~ 6.5438+0.5 million years ago, and the dating of thermoluminescence method (see archaeological chronology) is less than 200,000 years ago. Associated animal fossils belong to the mixed animal combination of north and south.
5. Maba people
Middle Paleolithic human fossils in southeastern China. It belongs to early Homo sapiens. 1958 was found in the limestone cave of Shizishan, Maba Town, qujiang district, Shaoguan City, Guangdong Province.
Maba man, from 129500 to 135000 years ago, is an ancient type between Chinese ape-man and modern man, belonging to early Homo sapiens, and an important representative of the transformation from Homo erectus to early Homo sapiens. Maba people belong to human fossils in the middle Paleolithic period in southeastern China, and they are also the only ancient humans in Guangdong province so far.
6. Changyang people
The fossil of Changyang Man was found in Longdong limestone cave in Xiazhongjiawan Village, southwest of Changyang County, Hubei Province in 1956, and was named Changyang Man by Professor Jia Lanpo. The fossils of Changyang people are more similar to modern people, not as primitive as Beijingers.
Changyang people are one of the earliest ancient humans discovered south of the Yangtze River in China. Changyang people have both the characteristics of modern people and some primitive characteristics. It is not less than 6.5438+0.95 million years ago and belongs to the "Late Pleistocene" fossil, which is later than Maba people and earlier than Dingcun people.
7. Dingcun people
Dingcun people are early Homo sapiens fossils found in Ding Cun, Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province, China more than 200,000 years ago, belonging to the Paleolithic remains in the early late Pleistocene.
Ding Cun Site is located on both sides of Tongpu Railway, about 5 kilometers south of Xiangfen County and south of Ding Cun. 1953, construction workers found stone tools and vertebrate fossils. During the large-scale excavation in 1954, three human tooth fossils were found, including two front teeth and 1 molar teeth of a child over 10 from the same individual. 1September, 976, another child's right parietal bone fossil was found in the gravel layer at the same place where the human tooth fossil was unearthed in Dingcun.
8. Jinniushan people
The archaeological discovery of "the primitive human skull of Jinniu Mountain" was listed as one of the "Top Ten Archaeological Techniques in the World" by 1984.
Jinniushan Site is located 8km southwest of dashiqiao city, 20km east of Changda Railway Line and Bohai Bay. It is an isolated hill composed of Sinian dolomitic marble, limestone, mica schist and magnesite, and it is the earliest Paleolithic ancient human site in Northeast China. Jinniu Mountain is 69.3 meters above sea level and covers an area of 0.308 square kilometers.
The cave site where Jinniu Mountain people live is located in the southeast of the mountain. Fossil analysis of middle Pleistocene fauna such as saber-toothed tiger, swollen deer and beaver shows that the main accumulation age of this cave was 300,000-400,000 years ago. The fossils of ancient human remains unearthed in this site are more complete than those of Peking Zhoukoudian ape-man. Judging from the fact that the thickness of skull wall is smaller than that of Peking man and larger than that of modern man, Jinniushan man is a transitional type between ape-man and homo sapiens.
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Ancient human fossils
For a long time, ancient human fossils are very rare all over the world. According to the research and scientific determination of strata and fauna, the geological age of "Jinniushan Man" is in the late Middle Pleistocene. About 280 thousand years ago. The skull fossil of "Jinniushan Man" is very complete. According to preliminary observation, it has both primitive characteristics and some progressive characteristics close to Homo sapiens, and its brain capacity is larger than that of Homo sapiens at the same time.
The discovery of the "Jinniushan Man" fossil filled the gap of human development in this period, and provided rich physical data for studying the physical characteristics and physical evolution of ape-man. This major discovery is listed as one of the top ten scientific and technological progress projects in the world this year.
Discovery of ancient human fossils thousands of years ago in Yingde, Guangdong. The burial stratum relationship found in Huangmenyan 1 Cave in Qingtang Site is clear, and the burial method is relatively clear "squat burial". The carbon samples of human skeleton * * * were determined by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS), which can be traced back to about 13500 years ago. It is the earliest tomb found in Guangdong and even Lingnan, indicating that the ancients in Lingnan had a clear view of life and death and conscious burial behavior more than 10000 years ago.
Only teeth or skull fossils have been found in Guangdong before, and a relatively complete human skeleton dating back to 1000 years has been preserved for the first time, which provides important new materials for studying the physical characteristics of Lingnan ancient humans in the late Paleolithic period, the DNA sequencing and gene research of Homo sapiens in the late South China, the evolution and migration of ancient humans in East and Southeast Asia, the ancient human recipes and paleopathology in the late Paleolithic period.
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