Humans in prehistoric times, were there humans in antiquity

In antiquity there were humans. The ancient period, that is, the ancient era, refers to the historical era before the appearance of written records. As a result, the definition of antiquity varies around the world.

In ancient China, it generally refers to the era before Xia. In the Two Rivers Valley and Egypt, it is generally referred to as the historical era before 5000 BC. Because there is no direct written record of the time in ancient times, the events or people that occurred at that time generally cannot be directly verified.

These events and characters also tend to be mythological.

Economy and culture. From archaeological discoveries, China's agriculture was produced about 10,000 years ago, and it is one of the earliest countries in the world to enter the agricultural civilization. Researchers at the Yingde Niulandong site have published some new archaeological research results, which have pushed the age of the rice siliceous bodies unearthed at the site to the earliest 10,000 years ago, and inferred that the Yingde Niulandong in Guangdong Province is likely to be the source of the world's rice civilization.

According to the legend of Yandi Shennong, 45,600 years ago, agriculture in the Central Plains had broken away from the primitive farming period and entered the stage of hoeing. Houji, the ancestor of the Zhou Dynasty, was a nongguan at the time of Yaoshun and was the first person to plant millet. The legend of Fu Xi in the book deed shows that 5,000 years ago, the image had evolved from realistic to linear, and there were ideograms.

Cangjie of the Yellow Emperor improved the text and appeared fake borrowed characters.

The ancient times recorded in the "Records of the Historians" may be real, and the creative process of the "Records of the Historians" is that Sima Qian went through the archival documents, writings and field investigation materials of many countries, and Sima Qian also carefully selected and analyzed these materials.

The earliest human found in the world - Ramaucus.

In 1910, the first fossil of Rama Australopithecus was discovered in the West Varik Mountains on the border between Pakistan and India, and it was a fragment of the maxilla.

In 1934, it was named Ramaucus.

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 Ramapistralopithecus was able to walk upright on two legs, and that they lived in glades or forest edges, eating mainly plant fruits, but may also have eaten a little meat.

It is the earliest human found in the world.

The earliest human found in China - Yuanmou Man.

In 1965, in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, archaeologists found two ancient human teeth and some rough stone tools.

Scientists have identified this as the bones and relics of ancient humans, about 1.7 million years ago.

The ancient humans found in Yuanmou are called Yuanmou people.

Yuanmou Man is the earliest human species found in China.

An earlier group was Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis), collateral relatives of modern humans, who have become extinct.

European prehistoric humans were Homo erectus, and Neanderthals. Among them, Homo sapiens and modern humans tend to look similar.

Early humans within the borders of our country.

China is one of the countries with the largest number of ancient human sites found in the world. Archaeologists have found many ancient human sites in different periods in Yunnan, Beijing, Chongqing, Shaanxi, Shandong, Hubei, Liaoning, Hebei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong and other places, and the most representative early humans are Yuanmou people, Beijing people and cave people.

Archaeologists have excavated two incisor teeth from ancient humans in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, as well as some crude stone tools, as well as charcoal chips and burnt bones. Yuanmou Man is about 1.7 million years old, and it is the earliest ancient human in China that has been confirmed. Through the study of the remains of the Yuanmou people, we can see that they have been able to make tools and know how to use fire.

Peking Man. The Peking Man site is located on the keel mountain of Zhoukoudian in the southwest of Beijing, and the accumulation layer of the site is more than 40 meters thick. The site was first discovered in 1921, and later anthropologists named the ancient humans who lived here "Peking Man" or "Peking Man" based on the three fossilized teeth found at the site.

In 1929, the first fossil of a Peking Man skull was discovered by Fei Wen, a young scholar from China, and in the same year, the remains of fire were discovered. Since then, four skull cover fossils have been excavated at the Peking Man site, more than 40 individual Homo erectus fossils have been unearthed in Geng, as well as nearly 100,000 stone tools and a large number of animal fossils. The discovery of these hominin fossils and stone tools provides important evidence for the reconstruction of the characteristics and living conditions of Peking Man.

It has been determined that Peking people lived about 700,000-200,000 years ago.

The skull of the Peking man has a low and flat forehead, a thick eyebrow bone, prominent cheekbones, a flat nasal bone, and a mouth that protrudes forward and has a smaller capacity than modern people. Their average height was 157 cm, and their upper limbs were similar to those of modern humans, with longer lower limbs and slightly longer limbs that allowed them to walk upright.

At that time, the area where the people of Beijing lived had large forests and waters, and the climate was warm and humid. There are often animals such as sika deer and wild horses, as well as abundant aquatic plants, and the people of Beijing use stones, animal bones and antlers to make all kinds of tools. Their technique of making stone tools is relatively mature, and they use different methods to make different types of tools, such as pointed tools.

scrapers, stone hammers and anvils, etc. The era in which stone tools were made in this way is called the Paleolithic Age.