Was the earliest primitive human in China a Wushan man or a Yuanmou man?

Wushan people were more than 300 thousand years earlier than Yuanmou people, and the earliest human beings lived in the Three Gorges.

Experts from China and France believe that the earliest human beings in China lived in the Three Gorges.

Yuanmou man in Yunnan was 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, and was recognized as the earliest human being in China. But at present, experts have questioned this.

The Sino-French archaeological team led by Huang Wanbo, a researcher at the Institute of vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discovered more than 2 million years old paleolithic tools in the archaeological work of Longgupo Ancient Human Site in Wushan Miao Town, Chongqing. The results show that "Wushan people" are more than 2 million years ago, more than 300 thousand years earlier than Yuanmou.

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During the period of 1985, archaeologists excavated a left mandibular fossil with two molars and some bone fragments with traces of artificial processing at Longgupo, Longping Village, Miao Zhen Town, Wushan County, Chongqing.

1986, three incisors and a fossil lower gum with two teeth were excavated. In addition, 65,438+065,438+06 species of early Pleistocene mammalian fossils have been unearthed in this site, including the great ape Brucella, the mastodon of China, the former oriental saber-toothed elephant, the saber-toothed tiger, the rhinoceros with two horns and the giant panda.

According to scholars' research, the relics unearthed at Longgupo site represent a new homo habilis subspecies, and were later named "Hometown Homo erectus Wushan", commonly known as "Wushan Man", which was about 201~ 204 million years ago.

The discovery of "Wushan Man" fossil is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century. The "Wushan Man" fossil is the earliest human fossil discovered in China.

The "Wushan Man" fossil is the earliest human fossil found in China so far. This discovery reveals the development process of human beings, fills the gap of early human fossils in China, and has extremely important scientific value for studying the origin of human beings and the development history of the Three Gorges Basin.

The discovery of "Wushan Man" fossil is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in China in the 20th century.

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