Is there a human fossil record from 10,000-20,000 years ago? It is reasonable to say that the closer humans are to the modern era, the more they will be, and the probability of forming fossils will be higher, but it is difficult to find fossils? There may be many friends who will be involved in the mysticism, but in fact, this has nothing to do with anything, but is just a condition for fossil formation!
Fossils are plants and animals (mind you are the animals and plants!). After death, they are transformed into stones underground through complex geological processes, but these stones retain many of the biological features of animals and plants, and scientists can restore them to their original state in the College of Animal and Plant Anatomy! Fossils have this considerable help in helping humans understand paleontology! Even our knowledge of paleontology comes from fossils! However, not all organisms can form fossils by burying them in the ground, and the following conditions are required:
First, the fossil forming organisms are best to have a hard shell because the skin and flesh are easily decayed and disappeared, and humans have a natural disadvantage on this one!
Second, the organism can be buried quickly after death, or it is better to be buried directly by geological landslides
The process from sediment or shelter to hard stone takes about 25,000 years! Please note that the bones of various animals that are generally unearthed cannot be called fossils!
From the above points of view, 25,000 years is still a theoretical value, to meet so many conditions, 10,000-20,000 years ago humans to form fossils, it is really a little difficult! There may be ancient remains in the process of forming fossils, but perhaps there are other sources of evidence that can give some reference!
Living fossil tongue-shaped shellfish from the Cambrian period
Tongue-shaped shellfish - sea bean sprouts
This hard shell is relatively easy to form fossils! But the fossils of animals and humans found in labyrinth caves in Wushan County, Chongqing, China, about 13,150 years ago, may teach this intermediate lesson!
The fossils of the jaws and lower cheek teeth of Mei's rhinoceros found in the labyrinth cave of Wushan County, but judging from the perspective of the entire fossil, it may not be completely petrified, and it seems to be semi-petrified!
Mei's rhinoceros upper cheek teeth
Labyrinth hole opening
Wushan Labyrinth Cave unearthed 45 fossils of mammals from more than 10,000 years ago, which shows that human activities were already very common more than 10,000 years ago! Therefore, it is impossible to conclude that there is no human fossil from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago, even if it is not a fossil, there will be bones that are forming fossils, or directly bones, which can indicate a clear footprint of human development!