1. Yuanmou Man was named as "Homo erectus yuan mouensis" because he was found on the hill in the northwest of Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province. The word "Yuanmou" comes from Dai language, which means "steed".

1 may, 9651day Yuanmou man's tooth fossils were found in shangnabang village, Yuanmou county, Yunnan province. Yuanmou County is known as "the hometown of Yuanmou people". 1976 according to the paleomagnetic method, the life age is about1700,000 years ago, and the difference between before and after is not more than100,000 years (some scholars think that its age should not exceed 730,000 years, that is, it may be 600,000 years ago to 500,000 years ago or later).

About 6.5438+0.7 million years, Yuanmou in Yunnan was a subtropical grassland and forest, where tertiary animals such as deer and ungulates lived and multiplied. After a while, early Pleistocene animals such as mulberry hyenas, Yunnan horses and Shanxi axis deer appeared in this grassland and forest.

2. Yuanmou's discovery process:

(1) 1965, Pu and other scholars went to look for fossils near Shangnabang village. At that time, under the guidance of an old cowherd, they came to the ravine about 1 km west of Bangcun to look for fossils. At 5 o'clock in the afternoon, a man found the fossil of Yunnan horse under a earthen bag, and then found two human front teeth. Later, scholars brought the tooth fossils back to Beijing.

(2)1February, 972, this discovery was identified and published by Hu Chengzhi, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. Hu Chengzhi published the article "Discovery of Ape's Tooth Fossils in Yuanmou, Yunnan" in the Journal of Geology 1973.

(3) 1973 10, vertebrate paleontology Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences organized a large-scale excavation, and found artificial stone tools, carbon chips and mammalian fossils in the nearby strata. But no new human fossils have been found.

(4)1July 25th, 976, and its absolute geological age was about1700,000 years ago. (It was later controversial. )

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1, the international influence of Yuanmou's discovery:

(1)1February 22, 972

On the special day of US President Nixon's visit to China, Xinhua News Agency released the great news of the discovery of Yuanmou man to the whole world. The People's Daily reported: "This is another major discovery after the discovery of Beijingers and Lantian people in northern China, which is of great scientific value for further study of paleoanthropology and Quaternary geology in southwest China." This great discovery has aroused widespread concern in academic circles at home and abroad.

(2) As early as 1903.

In the book written by Japanese scholar Yojiro Yokoyama, there is a record of Yuanmou's discovery of mammalian fossils; 1926 From the winter solstice to the beginning of 0927, the Central Asian expedition of the American Museum of Natural History visited Yunnan. Mr. Granger found skeleton fossils such as horses, elephants and rhinoceros in the east of Yuanmou Basin and ten miles south of Majie Street. According to the fossils, fauna and fossil-producing strata, they are placed in the early Pleistocene, and it is predicted that there may be traces of early human fossils.

(3) 1926 — 1940.

Many famous geologists and paleontologists at home and abroad, such as Nelson, granit, Kletner, Bian Meinian, colbert, Hu Chengzhi, Pei Wenzhong, Qiu Zhanxiang, Zhou Mingzhen, etc. A large number of investigations and studies have been carried out on Quaternary and Yuanmou Formation in Yuanmou Basin. During the investigation, glacial remains were found in Yuanmou, which was determined to be the only representative early Pleistocene geology in South China. Many fossil points were also found in the investigation, which were called "Majema Fossil Layer".

(4) 1976 spring

On the "Report on Commemorating the Centenary of Engels' The Role of Labor in the Transformation from Ape to Man", Qian Fang and Ma Xinghua announced on behalf of the Institute of Geomechanics of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences that the age of Yuanmou was determined by paleomagnetism as 1.70 65438+ ten thousand years. Cheng, on behalf of the Institute of Geology, announced in the same way that Yuanmou lived for163-1640,000 years; Liu Dongsheng spoke on behalf of Guiyang Institute of Geochemistry: The data of Yuanmou's life year measured by this institute are basically consistent with the results of the above units.

At the end of July of the same year, Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily released the important news that "Yuanmou Man" lived about 6.5438+0.7 million years ago. The discovery of "Yuanmou Man" has pushed forward the human history of China for more than 654.38+0 million years, which shows that Yunnan in the Yangtze River basin is the key and core area of human origin and development, and strongly challenges the African-centered theory of human origin and development.

2, Yuanmou site protection:

1February, 982, the State Council announced Yuanmou Man Site as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

Yuanmou People Exhibition Hall is located in Longchuan Street, Yuanmou County, 7 kilometers away from Yuanmou County. Covering an area of 4,000 square meters, construction started on 1985 and was completed on 1987. Exhibition hall The exhibition hall introduces Yuanmou people's tooth fossils and so on. There are more than 1000 cultural relics in the collection. The exhibition hall is divided into three parts: human origin, Yuanmou ape and Yuanmou prehistoric culture, which reveals a brief history of human origin and development and systematically shows the evolutionary links of primitive humans.

There is a monument at the site of Yuanmou Man, and there is a museum not far away. The museum shows Yuanmou people's teeth fossils, paleontological fossils and other related objects and materials.

In 2009, National Cultural Heritage Administration announced that Yuanmou Man Exhibition Hall was a national third-class museum.

Yunnan will build a platform for ancestor worship for Yuanmou people.

The government of Wei Chu, Yunnan Province announced that it would build a large-scale platform for ancestor worship of orientals in Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Prefecture, in order to publicize the long history of the ancient orientals and cherish and worship the earliest known human Yuanmou. ?

Yuanmou Man was discovered and named by Qian Fang, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences. It is an ancient human before Lantian people (about 800,000 to 600,000 years ago) and Beijingers (about 500,000 to 300,000 years ago). On May 1965, researcher Qian Fang and his colleagues discovered two human tooth fossils during their scientific investigation in Yuanmou County. Later, scientists also found several stone tools in the same stratum, as well as some scattered carbon chips and two small charred bones. ?

According to scientists' determination, these two ancient human tooth fossils, stone tools, carbon chips and burnt bones existed about 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, belonging to Yuanmou, the earliest known human in China. At that time, they already knew how to make tools and use fire. Whether they can make tools is the fundamental difference between people and animals. ?

Researcher Qian Fang, who is conducting a scientific investigation in Yunnan, said that the discovery of the "Yuanmou Man", the "Oriental" fossil 265,438+10,000 years ago and the "Butterfly Lamasiros" fossil 2.7 million years ago in the same place has pushed forward the history of the Chinese nation by 1 10,000 years. The academic circles have basically reached a consensus that Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Prefecture, China is the earliest known region for human development and evolution. ?

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