What are the main discoveries of Homo sapiens fossils in late China?

There are some typical representations of Homo erectus, early Homo sapiens, and late Homo sapiens in China, as well as some transitional human races.

Homo erectus: Wushan people, Yuanmou people, Beijing people, Lantian people, Jinniushan people, Nanjing people, Hexian people, etc. (Jinniushan people belong to the transitional race).

Early Homo sapiens: Xujiayao people, Maba (dam) people, Dingcun people, Dali people, Changyang people, Tongzi people, Huanglongdong people, etc.

Late Homo sapiens: Fuyan Cave Man, Peak Cave Man, Shiyu Man, Yunxi Man, Ziyang Man, etc. (Fuyan Cave Man and Peak Cave Man are the most typical in the period).

The above ** is in Mr. Zhang Zhiheng's "General Theory of Archaeology" and the knowledge taught by professors.

How was the only intact fossilized skull of Australopithecus found in China?

The "Wushan Man" fossil is the earliest human fossil found in China so far.

In 1985, archaeologists excavated a fragment of the left mandible of a broken capable man with two molars and some bone fragments with traces of artificial processing in Longping Village, Miaoyu Town, Wushan County, Sichuan Province. In 1986, three more incisors and a section of lower gum with two teeth were excavated.

According to scholars' research, the relics unearthed at the Longjipo site represent a new subspecies of Homo sapiensis, which was later named "Home Erectus wushanensis", commonly known as "Wushan Man", about 201 204 million years ago.

Ramapicus fossils.

The fossils of Australopithecus found in China include the fossil skull of Australopithecus rama that is 8 million years old and "closer" to humans than African Australopithecus, Wushan Man 2 million years ago, Yuanmou Man 1.7 million years ago, Lantian Man 1.15 million years ago, Beijing Man 500,000 years ago and other ancient human fossils. The Rama Australopithecus fossil site is located on the slope of Miaoshan in Limba Village, 9 kilometers northeast of Lufeng County, Yunnan Province.

Hubei Province".Changyang people"Fossils belong to early Homo sapiens.

Changyang Man" is a human being in the middle Paleolithic period in central China, and belongs to early Homo sapiens. "Changyang Man" is about 10,000 years old, between ape man and modern man, and is equivalent to the end of the Beijing ape man, and is one of the earliest ancient humans found south of the Yangtze River in China.

The advent of "Changyang people" shows that the vast area south of the Yangtze River basin is also the birthplace of ancient Chinese culture and the cradle of the birth of the Chinese nation. "Changyang Man" is a typical representative of the evolution and development of the world's human wheel travel in the stage of ancient people, which fills the two gaps in the time and space of human archaeology in the "late Middle Pleistocene" and "the Yangtze River Basin in Asia", and further denies the "Chinese civilization in the west".

Physical characteristics of "Changyang people":

The "Changyang Man" fossil includes an incomplete maxilla with the first premolar and the first molar, and a single lower left second premolar. The teeth are quite large, and the bite surface is complexly textured. The crown is low, the root is long, and the root of the lower second premolar has two branches.

The maxilla, like other early Homo sapiens, retains some primitive properties on the one hand, such as the lower part of the piriform foramen is wider, the base wall of the nasal cavity is not as concave as that of modern humans, but close to that of apes, and the canines are more developed.

On the other hand, there are many progressive properties similar to those of modern humans, such as the inclination of the jaw is not as significant as that of Peking people, the nasal spine is narrower and anterior, the anterior wall of the maxillary sinus expands forward beyond the first premolar, and the jaw surface is unevenly concave and convex. On the whole, the Changyang people have more progressive properties than the primitive ones, and are obviously more advanced than the Beijing Homo erectus.

1. British researchers said on March 1, 2017 that they had found the oldest fossil in history in Canada, showing that life existed about 4.3 billion years ago. This means that life on Earth appeared earlier than previously thought.

2. The University College London team published a report in the journal "Nature" pointing out that it is generally believed that the earth was born about 100 million years ago, and the fossils they found in Quebec were formed from now to 100 million years ago, that is, life appeared soon after the formation of the earth. The researchers say that because of the presence of liquid water on both Mars and Earth at the same time, the discovery may suggest that there may also be evidence of life on Mars from 4 billion years ago.

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The earliest human fossils.

Mary du Leaky 1975

Dr. Leakey discovered human fossils of eight adults and three children in Tanzania. According to the University of California, these people lived between 335 and 3.75 million B.C.

On March 21, 1979, Dr. Mary Leakey announced the discovery of the remains of a meter-long footprint in northern Tanzania, which is said to have been left by two people walking on a new formation formed by volcanic dust 300,000 years ago. There are a total of 57 footprints, one of which is centimeters long and the other centimeters long. It is estimated that the person with small feet is meters tall and the other person is meters tall.

One of these two people may be a man and a woman, or one may be an adult and the other a child.