The Relationship between Beijingers and China

However, the discovery of Beijingers represents an honor for all people in China.

In the 1920s and 1930s, China was poor and weak. 1929, the first ape-man skull was found in Zhoukoudian, Beijing. At that time, everyone immediately realized the significance, and even the photographers present were so excited that they didn't even take pictures of the head of the discoverer.

Beijingers advanced human history by 500,000 years. This discovery made China the birthplace of all mankind at that time, and that pride and pride remained in the hearts of China people for many years.

How can the highly respected Beijingers be associated with cannibalism? This is something I dare not even think about. Shadows don't affect Dunrui Wei. He is full of expectations, and the picture of primitive human life has begun to unfold slowly in front of him.

500,000 years ago, Zhoukoudian in Beijing was a dense virgin forest, with birds singing and flowers fragrant in the mountains, and Beijingers created a splendid life here.

They can make all kinds of tools, and the Zhoukoudian ape-man site still retains all kinds of stone tools of different sizes, materials and uses.

They can also kill all kinds of animals, even fierce saber-toothed tigers, and they will all be killed in the joint action of apes.

Beijing people are more flexible in using fire. Fire not only brought them light and warmth, but also gave birth to human civilization.

In these ash layers excavated in Zhoukoudian, people can clearly see the dark traces left by charcoal ash. However, on July 7th, 1937, the Lugouqiao Incident broke out, which not only changed the fate of China, but also changed the research trend of Beijingers (15 ").

Due to the Japanese invasion, the excavation of Zhoukoudian was forced to stop, and Dunrui Wei sent all the unearthed cultural relics to the American Union Medical College for preservation.

When counting human remains, he noticed that during the excavation of 10 years, a total of 14 skulls were unearthed, of which 5 skulls, 14 limb bone fragments, and some teeth and mandibles were relatively complete.

This is an exciting number of skulls, because skulls can best reflect human physical characteristics, but after careful consideration, Dunrui Wei wants to know why there are so few bones in other parts.

Other animal fossils unearthed in Zhoukoudian show the opposite result. They have more trunk bones and limb bones than skulls, which is also in line with common sense, because the limb bones of each animal are much more than skulls in quantity and volume, but why do Beijingers have such deformities?

Dunrui Wei carefully recalled the situation when the bones were unearthed. The bones of these Beijingers are buried in more than 20,000 cubic meters, scattered in 15 places, and their burial situation is very special:

This is a place where the ape-man's mandible was buried, but next to him, archaeologists found stone tools, and further away, they unearthed animal fossils, which is not in line with the usual situation.

Usually, when primitive people catch prey, they will use stone tools to pick meat and bones, then break the animal's head and bones, suck up the brain and bone marrow, and leave stone tools and animal bones after eating.

Therefore, human fossils will not be unearthed with animal fossils and stone tools, because only animals are human prey. But why do Beijingers make such unusual discoveries?

Could it be that limb bones were missed during excavation? This seems impossible, because the excavated bone fragments, no matter how broken, will not be discarded at will; What's more, after the specimens are shipped to Beijing, they have to be sorted out by scientific researchers, and even tiny bone fragments can be picked out.

Is it destroyed by natural forces? However, a large number of animal limb bones have been found here, and natural forces will never destroy the bones of Beijingers alone.

So some external force brought the ape-man skull into the cave? Like water. However, archaeological findings show that there is no sign of water flowing through the bones. What other reasons can there be?

Rome, Italy is a world-famous ancient city of civilization, but in 1939, there was a strange discovery here, very similar to Beijingers. It was on February 25th 1939, on a beautiful island in the southwest of Rome, that archaeologists accidentally discovered a mysterious cave 200,000 years ago.

Deep in the cave, in the center of a circle surrounded by stones, there is a head with the bottom facing up. In the stone circle not far away, it seems that there are three piles of animal bones buried. They are red deer, cows and pigs. Surprisingly, however, there was a big hole in the bottom of the man's skull, and the whole skull was badly broken, like a heavy blow. Moreover, the whole cave did not find the bones of the rest of the human body, leaving only one head alone!

The discovery in Italy is very similar to that of Peking man: their skulls are out of proportion to the bones of their limbs. There are only 1 skull left in Chilceo cave, while Beijingers have five relatively complete skulls and a very small amount of limb bones. However, the discovery in Italy still bears traces of violence. Did something terrible happen here?

Sure enough, it didn't take long for Italian experts to make a jaw-dropping conclusion! The researchers first determined that it was the skull of a prehistoric human Neanderthal in Europe 200,000 years ago, but then in further research, they came to the conclusion that the right side of his head was obviously severely hit.

What is even more shocking, however, is that experts believe that the edge of this big hole at the bottom of the skull is uneven, rather than relatively smooth like natural forces.

So in Italy 200,000 years ago, it was probably this Neanderthal who was killed by the same kind, brutally cut off his head and brought it back to the cave, smashing the skull base to suck his brain!

Although the scenes of Italiani's Neanderthals and Beijingers were very similar, Dunrui Wei had not yet associated Beijingers with cannibalism. He believes that there is another possibility if the missing excavation, cave collapse and water flow can't explain the imbalance between Peking man's skull and other bones. What's even more frightening is that. From the excavation of Zhoukoudian, we can see that the hyenas in that period were extremely huge, even surpassing the Siberian tiger today, and this animal, which also likes to eat dead bodies, had sharp teeth and amazing bite force. A large number of fecal fossils with broken bones were found in Zhoukoudian site, indicating that hyenas are bloodthirsty and can't even release their bones.

Hyenas have a close relationship with Beijingers. In the site of the ape-man cave, the staggered fossil accumulation layers of Peking man and hyenas clearly show that the earliest owner of the cave should be hyenas, and Peking man began to live here 500,000 years ago. Since then, the two sides have occupied caves alternately and fought for hundreds of thousands of years before finding the remains of fire in Zhoukoudian, which has advanced the history of human use of fire by hundreds of thousands of years. Five ash layers, three ash piles and a large number of charred bones were found at the scene, and the thickest part of the ash layer can reach 6 meters. These relics show that Beijingers not only know how to use fire, but also can preserve kindling.

So in the process of fighting for caves, will fierce hyenas swallow the limb bones in the ape-man's body, leaving only the skull without meat? If so, they would leave tooth marks or claw marks on the bones of the ape-man, and Dunrui Wei began to look for them carefully.

However, Dunrui Wei didn't find the trace of the hyenas biting over and over on the bones of Beijingers, so it can't be that hyenas ate the bones of human limbs, so there is only one possibility left, that is, Beijingers put their headbands in the caves themselves!

Are Beijingers cannibals who specialize in headhunting? The following findings seem to support this view more.

According to the knowledge of ancient humans at that time, Dunrui Wei thought that the skull and limbs bones of Peking man unearthed were extremely unbalanced. Peking man's skull is a kind of skull which not only retains the characteristics of apes, but also has human nature, but is obviously closer to the head of apes.

Their skulls are very thick, about twice as thick as modern people. In particular, their lower part expands and their upper part contracts, while modern people are just the opposite. Their lower part is narrow and their upper part is swollen, so the brains of Beijingers are not big, only half of those of modern people.

However, although the head of Beijingers shows more characteristics of apes, their limbs and bones are very close to those of modern people, and they have basically possessed the structure of modern people, that is to say, Beijingers can walk or even run like modern people.

This makes Dunrui Wei suspicious.

At that time, it was generally believed that man could be the spirit of all things, because human activities were dominated by the brain. Therefore, in evolution, the development of the brain should precede the limbs. However, the situation in Beijing is just the opposite.

Is it possible that there were two kinds of people in Zhoukoudian 500,000 years ago, one with developed brains, and the other with developed limbs but simple brains, and this brain gap may lead to the tragedy that people eat people when they are hungry, and the simple brain has become the prey of developed apes?

Another winter has passed, and Dunrui Wei has been in Beijing for three years. At this time, the spring outside the window has come, but Dunrui Wei has no mood to appreciate it. The constant problems in Peking Man made him feel a little tired.

When Dunrui Wei carried out a more detailed study with the mystery that has always existed in his heart, he suddenly saw a shocking scar on his skull!

1929 The first skull excavated has many gouges on the surface of the parietal bone;

However, the first skull discovered by 1936 has deep cuts on the left frontal bone and parietal bone;

In the middle of the parietal bone of the second skull, there is a concave, shallow and uneven circular dent with a diameter of about 1.5 cm. Cracks emanate from the dent, as if it had been hit by some sharp instrument, and similar situations have occurred in other parts of this skull.

Finally, there is a sagittal deep mark of nearly three centimeters on the parietal bone of the third skull!