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 two-horned rhinoceros and the competitive 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.
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Chinese civilization is the primitive civilization in the eastern part of Eurasia. Since modern times, historians have gradually revealed the basic context of the development of China's ancient history on the land of our country through the comprehensive study of archaeology, paleoanthropology, ancient philology and ethnology. Judging from the current materials, at least 654.38+0 million years ago, human beings have been active in the vast areas of China.
For example, Wushan people in Chongqing are about 2 million years ago, Yuanmou people in Yunnan are about 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, and the human skull fossils found in Gongwangling, Lantian, Shaanxi and Yunxian, Hubei are all close to or earlier than 6.5438+0.0 million years ago. Some may be close to 2 million years.
From the above-mentioned "ape-men" such as Yuanmou people in Yunnan and Lantian people in Shaanxi, to the "ancients" such as Maba people in Shaoguan, Guangdong and Ding Cun people in Xiangfen, Shanxi, and then to the "newcomers" such as cavemen in Beijing and Ziyang people in Sichuan, the three stages constitute the primitive human period.
According to archaeological research, the rice farming culture in China can be advanced to 1 10,000 years ago. It is hard for people living today to imagine the lifestyle of their ancestors/kloc-0.0 million years ago. After the development of Yangshao culture and Longshan culture, Chinese civilization has experienced the process from origin to gradual formation, and the social complexity is more obvious.
Xia, Shang and Zhou gradually entered a highly developed class society. After the development and decline of the Qin and Han Dynasties and the feudal society for more than 2,000 years, Chinese civilization experienced a long historical process.
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