192965438+On February 2nd, Pei Wenzhong, a scientist from China, discovered the first ape-man skull, which has since become a world-famous human fossil site. 1709 1 stone tools left by "Beijingers" have been found in the ape-man cave.
Up to now, no ancient human site has so much information about ancient humans, ancient cultures and ancient animal fossils as Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.
The study of Peking man skulls and a series of scattered Peking man fossils shows that Peking man lived in Zhoukoudian for about 370,000 years, starting about 600,000 years ago and ending about 230,000 years ago.
It is particularly interesting that the remains of fire were found in the Peking Man Cave in Zhoukoudian in 1930s. Because of this discovery, the history of human using fire has advanced by hundreds of thousands of years, which makes archaeologists all over the world generally believe that human beings already knew how to use fire at the ape-man stage.
For the whole world, the skull fossils of "Beijingers" are rare treasures that attract the attention of the world scientific community.
Extended data:
Because of its precious historical significance, "Peking man's skull" has also become the coveted object of some speculators and imperialists. Five Peking man skulls and a batch of fossils excavated by Pei Wenzhong mysteriously "disappeared" during their stay in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. This incident became a theft that shocked the world. Since the 1950s, people have been looking for it, but so far there is no result. This case has attracted more and more attention in the world.
After the end of World War II, the United States, China and Japan all carried out the search for Peking man skulls, but so far no trace of these precious fossils has been found. For many years, the search for "Beijingers" has remained at the level of folk operation and scholars' appeal.
1998, the academician of China Academy of Sciences 14, headed by Jia Lanpo, a famous paleoanthropologist and one of the discoverers of "Peking man" skull fossils, called on relevant people to take action to look for "Peking man" fossils. 1999, the relevant departments of Fangshan District also issued an appeal for "the search at the end of the century".
2005-07-02 The Fangshan District Government of Beijing, the hometown of Beijingers, officially announced the establishment of a working committee to search for Peking man skull fossils. At this point, under the leadership of the government, a unified coordination of civil forces to find "Beijingers" was born.
The Committee has an office and a search task force, which are responsible for: formulating a search plan, reporting it for examination and approval, and going out for investigation; After tracking the clues on the spot, sort out the data and report it in time; For valuable and important clues, after reporting for approval, with the support and assistance of relevant departments, dig deep and search for domestic clues.
But unfortunately, despite a lot of efforts, people still haven't found the lost national treasure skull.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Peking Man Skull