So far, historians believe that it is a Yuanmou person. This was followed by the Blue Sky Man, the Hilltop Cave Man and the Hemu Du Man.
Yuanmou people, is currently the earliest known ancient residents in China, because the discovery site is in the northwest of The hill northwest of Shangnabang Village in Yuanmou County, Yunnan
Yuanmouren, named "Yuanmou Upright Person", english name: Homo erectus yuan mouensis, commonly known as "Yuanmouren". The word "Yuanmou" comes from the Dai language and means "horse".
The fossil teeth of Yuanmou people were found in 1965 on the "May Day" festival in Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, which is known as the "hometown of Yuanmou people". In 1976, according to paleomagnetic methods, the age of life was about 1.7 million years ago, and the gap was no more than 100,000 years (some scholars believe that its age should not exceed 730,000 years, that is, it may be 600,000 to 500,000 years ago or later).
About 1.7 million years ago, the area around Yuanmou in Yunnan, hazelnut and lush forests, was a subtropical grassland and forest, where the remnants of the Tertiary stage such as the antler deer and the clawed hoof beast survived and multiplied. Some time later, early Pleistocene animals such as the Sang's hyena, the Yunnan horse, and the Shanxi axis deer appeared in this grassland and forest. Most of them are herbivorous beasts. In order to survive, the Yuanmou people used crude stone tools to hunt them. Based on the two teeth, stone tools, charcoal chips, and subsequent excavations in the same layer at the same site, a small amount of stonework, a large amount of charcoal, and mammal fossils have been excavated, proving that they were primitive humans who could make tools and use fire.
Yuanmou Man, a fossil of early Paleolithic humans in southwest China. It is the earliest known Homo erectus in China.In May 1965, the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences discovered it near the village of Shangnabang in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province. It is located on the edge of the Yuanmou Basin, where a set of 695-meter-thick river and lake facies is exposed. From bottom to top, it is divided into 4 sections and 28 floors. Metamorphosis teeth are found in paragraph 4, layer 22. Since then, a small amount of stonework, a large amount of carbon chips and mammal fossils have been excavated in the same layer at the same site. The geological age of the Yuanmou people belongs to the early Pleistocene, according to the Paleomagnetic Dynasty, which is 1.7 million years old.
The Metamorphic fossil consists of two upper medial incisors, one left and one right, belonging to the same adult individual. The crown is intact, the root ends are mutilated, and there are small cracks on the surface, which are filled with brown clay. These two teeth are very stout, the lip surface is relatively flat, the pattern of the tongue surface is very complex, with obvious primitive properties, and it is named "Homo erectus yuanmouensis", commonly known as "Yuanmou ren".
A total of 7 stone products have been excavated, and the artificial traces are clear. The raw material is veined quartz, the shape of the instrument is not large, there are stone cores and scrapers. Although they and human teeth do not live on the same level, but the layer is roughly the same, the distance is not far, should be made and used by the Yuanmou people. The carbon chips found were mostly doped in clay and silty clay, and a small amount in the gravel convex mirror body. The carbon chips are roughly divided into 3 layers, and the spacing of each layer is 30 to 50 cm. Charcoal chips are often associated with mammalian fossils. The largest chips can reach a diameter of 15 mm and the small ones are about 1 mm. On a plane of 4 cm × 3 cm, the charcoal chips of more than 1 mm can reach as many as 16 grains. Two black bones were also found, which were identified as possibly burned. Researchers believe that these are traces of human use of fire at that time. This discovery, along with the burning bones found in the Xihoudu culture about 1.8 million years ago, if it is indeed evidence of artificial fire use, greatly advances the history of human use of fire.
There are 29 species of mammal fossils that coexist with Yuanmou people, such as Nihewan saber-toothed tiger, Sang's hyena, Yunnan horse, clawed hoofed beast, Chinese rhinoceros, Shanxi axis deer, etc., and almost 100% of the extinct animals, of which 38.8% are Pliocene and Early Pleistocene, which indicates that the survival era of Yuanmou people will not be later than the early Pleistocene. According to the analysis of animal fossils and plant pollen, some people believe that the natural environment at that time was a forest and grassland landscape, and the climate was cooler than now. Regarding the "absolute" dating of the Yuanmou people, according to the paleomagnetic method determined by the Institute of Geomechanics of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, it is 1.7 ± 100,000 years ago; Based on paleomagnetic analysis and comparison, the Institute of Geology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences believes that it is 1.64 million years old. However, some people believe that it should not be more than 730,000 years old, that is, perhaps 600,000 to 500,000 years ago or later.
Metamount. Because the cave people at the top of the mountain live in the area where the Beijingers have been active, while the Beijingers live in Zhoukoudian and the Yuanmou people live in what is now Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province. Lantian in Shaanxi. The Yangtze River flows through Yunnan. Yuanmou people, because the discovery site is in the Yunnan Yuanmou County Shangnabang village northwest of the hill, named "Yuanmou Upright", English name: Homoerectus Yuanmouensis, commonly known as "Yuanmou people" Archaeologists believe that "Yuanmou people" north across the Jinsha River, to Gansu, Qinghai to become the ancient Qiangrong people, continue northeast across the Bering Strait into the Americas, become the ancestors of Indians. It is the oldest known hominid in China.
Yuanmou people, because the place of discovery is in Yuanmou County, Yunnan - Bengcun Northwest Hill, named "Yuanmou Zhiliren", English name: Homoerectus yuanmouensis, commonly known as "Yuanmou people". The word "Yuanmou" comes from the Dai language and means "horse".The fossil teeth of Yuanmou people were found in 1965 in the village of Shangnabang in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, which is known as the "hometown of Yuanmou people". According to paleomagnetic methods in 1976, the age of life is about 1.7 million years ago, and the gap is no more than 100,000 years before and after.
About 1.7 million years ago, the Yuanmou area of Yunnan, the forest was lush, a subtropical grassland and forest, where the remnants of the Tertiary period such as the antler deer and the clawed hoof beast survived and multiplied. Some time later, early Pleistocene animals such as the Sang's hyena, the Yunnan horse, and the Shanxi axis deer appeared in this grassland and forest. Most of them are herbivorous beasts. In order to survive, the Yuanmou people used crude stone tools to hunt them. Based on the two teeth, stone tools, charcoal chips, and subsequent excavations in the same layer at the same site, a small amount of stonework, a large amount of charcoal, and mammal fossils have been excavated, proving that they were primitive humans who could make tools and use fire
1. Yuanmou man is a late ape man.
2. Late ape man - representative of the second stage of human development. It lived in the Late Pleistocene to Middle Pleistocene, which is about 1.5 million to 200,000 years old. The late ape man was originally called Pithecanthropus, and later studied by scholars, and was classified as Homo erectus, which is the same genus as Homo habilis and Homo sapiens, but different species. Homoerectus erectus, H. erectus lantianensis (found in Lantian, Shaanxi in 1963 and 1964, counting 1 mandible, 1 skull and part of the facial bone, geological age of the early Middle Pleistocene), Beijinger (H. erectuspekinensis), H. erectus yuanmousis (found in 1965 in Yuanmou, Yunnan, There is one left and one medial incisor, which lived 1.7 million years ago) are all late apes.
3. Although they belong to the category of humans, they still maintain the physical characteristics of more apes. Such as the skull cover is low, the cranial cavity is small, the bone wall is thick, the brow crest is large, the jaw is protruding forward, and there is no chin. The teeth are quite different from those of apes, but they are still larger than those of modern humans. The bones of the lower limbs are similar to those of modern humans and can walk upright. They can make stone tools, some (such as the Pekingese) and can use and preserve natural fire. They live in groups in caves or near river banks, where they make their living by picking plants and hunting animals. In addition to Beijing people, Lantian people and Yuanmou people, in recent years, late ape fossils have also been found in Yunxian and Yunxi, Hubei and Anhui hexian and other places.
Among them, H. erectushexianesis was found in Anhui Andxian in 1980, with one skull and 5 teeth; In 1981, some bone fragments, 5 teeth and a large number of associated animal fossils were found, geologically dated to the Middle Pleistocene, and many of its morphological characteristics are similar to those of the Peking people.
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