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In the new textbook, based on the unanimously recognized research results of the archaeological community, we have made the following statement about the earliest known human beings in China: "Yuanmou Man lived about 1.7 million years ago, and it is the earliest known human in China. "However, since the 80s and 90s of the 20th century, there have been more advances and new discoveries in archaeology as to whether there were earlier human activities in our country.
Among them, there are two places that may be earlier than the Yuanmou people: one is the Wushan people of the dragon bone slope of Wushan in Chongqing, and the other is the Xihoudu culture in Ruicheng County, Shanxi.
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Yuanmou people. Homo erectus fossils in China. It was discovered in 1965 in Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province.
Including the left and right upper medial incisors belonging to the same body. Its morphological characteristics are similar to those of the incisors of Peking Man, but there are some differences. There are different views in the academic community on the geological age and absolute age of the Yuanmou Man fossils.
One opinion is that it belongs to the late Early Pleistocene, dating according to paleogeomagnetism (see archaeochronology), which is about 1.7 million years ago; Another view is that in the Middle Pleistocene, because the paleomagnetic age should not be more than 730,000 years old, i.e. it may be 600,000 500,000 years old or later. When the site of Yuanmou was excavated in the winter of 1973, three hand-made scrapers were also found, and the raw material was quartzite.
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1. The earliest human found in the world was Ramaucus. In 1910, people first discovered the fossil of Ramapicus in the West Varik Mountains on the border between Pakistan and India, which is a fragment of the maxilla. In 1934, it was named Ramaucus.
2. In the sixties and seventies, fossils of Australopithecus were found in Kenya, Greece, Turkey, Hungary, Pakistan and Yunnan Province of China. Ramaucus has been identified as having lived between 14 million and 8 million years ago. Archaeologists have theorized that Ramapicus was initially able to walk upright on two legs, lived in forest clearings or forest fringes, and ate mainly plant fruits, but may also have eaten a little meat.
3. It is the earliest human found in the world. In 1965, in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, archaeologists found two ancient human teeth and some rough stone tools.
4. Identified by scientists, this is the bones and relics of ancient humans, about 1.7 million years ago. The ancient humans found in Yuanmou are called Yuanmou people. The Yuanmou people are the earliest humans found in the territory of Zhongyu Shiguo.
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Distribution characteristics of early human relics in China: primitive human relics are mainly distributed in large rivers and river basins, with fertile land and sufficient water sources.
The main sites of early human beings in China are widely distributed, from north to south and from east to west, but more are distributed in the eastern part of China and less in the western part of China. The distribution of the main sites of ancient human beings in China is related to water sources, mainly distributed near major rivers, such as the Pearl River, the Yellow River, the Yangtze River, etc.
The early human beings in China were mainly distributed in the Yangtze River and Yellow River basins, where the land was fertile and the water sources were abundant, which was more suitable for human survival. The earliest known human beings in our country are the Yuanmou people.
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Ethiopia in eastern Africa.
In 2009, the journal Science published an article saying that it had successfully put together a female hominid skeleton from fragmentary hominid fossils found in Ethiopia. Scientists say that the ape-man named "Aldi" lived about 440,000 years ago, a million years earlier than another female hominid skeleton "Lucy" found earlier in Ethiopia, and is the earliest hominid skeleton to date.
"Aldi" is an abbreviation for the Ramida ape-man, also known as "Archaeopteryx". The fossil was first discovered in Ethiopia in 1992, and it took 17 years to assess its significance. Scientists believe this important discovery will help to understand the evolutionary process of humans in the earliest stages.
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Modern humans first originated in eastern Africa; About 100,000 years ago, our ancestors traveled from Africa to Europe and Asia.
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The earliest human beings in our country.
1.Yuanmou people.
1) Location: Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province.
3) Production and living conditions can make tools (the fundamental difference between humans and animals), know how to use fire (barbecue food, drive away wild animals, lighting, protection from the cold).
4) Characteristics: The earliest known human in China.
2.Peking Man.
1) Location: Beijing Zhoukoudian Dragon Bone Mountain.
2) Time: 700,000 years ago, 200,000 years ago.
3) Physical characteristics Walking upright, with a clear division of hands and feet, and still retains some characteristics of an ape.
4) Production The use of stone tools and wooden sticks, the use of natural fire, and the preservation of fire.
5) Living conditions Dozens of people live in groups and work together - gathering, hunting, and sharing the fruits of labor in the cave.
The earliest human explanations:
The earliest human beings in China are Yuanmou people, about 1.7 million years ago, in 1965, in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, archaeologists found two ancient humans.
The teeth and some rough stone tools, which have been identified as the bones and relics of ancient humans.
Yuanmou people, because the location of discovery is in the northwest hill of Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, is named "Yuanmou Homo erectus", commonly known as "Yuanmou people". The tooth fossil of Yuanmou people was found in Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province on the May Day in 1965, and Yuanmou County is known as the "hometown of Yuanmou people". In 1976, according to the paleomagnetic method, the age of life was about 1.7 million years ago, and the difference was no more than 100,000 years before and after.
The Yuanmou Man fossil consists of two upper medial incisors, one on the left and one on the right, belonging to the same adult individual. Its degree of petrification is deep, the color is grayish-white, and there are several cracks. The incisors of Yuanmou are characterized by a swollen crown at the base, extended at the end, and slightly triangular.
The basal tubercle of the lingual surface is convex and has a well-developed spade-shaped tooth socket. The concave surface in the middle of the lingual surface of the crown is rough, and the digital processes of ** are very long, and the digital processes are concentrated in the half of the surface near the outside.
Yuanmou Man predates the "Lantian Man", "Peking Man", "Cave Man" and other ape people, thus pushing forward the age of the earliest human fossils found in China - more than a million years. The discovery of the Yuanmou Man site has great historical significance and scientific research value, and China and some countries have written this discovery into textbooks.
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