One: Yuanmou people
In 1965, the "Yuanmou Ape Man" was discovered near the village of Shangnabang in Yuanmou County, Yunnan.
Period: About 1.7 million years ago, it is the earliest human being that has been discovered in China.
The main findings were: young males; two left and right inner incisors of apes; 4 scrapers made of quartzite; more than a dozen stone products; a variety of fossils of herbivorous mammals; charcoal chips and burned bones, and it is still impossible to determine whether it is artificial fire.
Metamount
Metamount teeth
Two: Lantian people
Fossil apes found in Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, in the mid-1960s, are known as Lantian people.
Period: About 800,000 to 600,000 years ago.
The main findings are: one skull, one maxilla and one mandible, more than ten teeth; stone tools; mammal fossils; the skull bone wall is extremely thick, the frontal bone is very wide, tilted backwards, the eyebrow ridge is thick, and the brain volume is very small, estimated to be about 780 ml. furthermore.
Lantian people
Three: Peking Ape Man
In 1921, the fossil peking ape man was found in Zhoukoudian Dragon Bone Mountain (originally a cave about 140 meters long and 20 meters wide) in southwest Beijing.
Period: Between about 500,000 and 400,000 years ago.
The main findings are: the cultural accumulation layer is up to 4 meters thick; the fossils belong to more than 40 individuals; from 1921 to 1966, the fossil materials of the ape man have 6 skulls, 14 skull and face bone fragments, 15 mandibles, 1 intestinal bone, 3 segments of the skull, 1 collarbone, 1 crescent bone, 153 teeth scattered and attached to the sacrum; more than 17,000 pieces of various stone tools, in addition to a large number of stone chips and cores, using smashing, hammering, drilling and other methods to make stone tools The overall characteristics are similar to those of modern humans; their fire sites are the most abundant ancient human fire relics that can be seen at present.
Peking Ape Man
Four: Taurus Mountain Ape Man
In the mid-1980s, fossils of Jinniu Mountain ape humans were found in the Cave of West Jinniu Mountain in Yingkou County, Liaoning Province.
Period: About 280,000 years ago.
The main findings are: a relatively complete ape skull, in addition to more than 50 fossils such as vertebrae, ribs, wrist bones, metacarpal bones, and phalanges, all belong to an individual, which provides convenience for studying the situation of apes and accurately restoring apes.