Shaanxi Xungu | Archeology provides new evidence of human origin

| Cave Site | Figures of the Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute

Early modern people in China and East Asia have evolved from the ancient people, or from the migration of Africa?

Who is the manufacturing and users of the Diusi Times Stone Tools in the Qinling area of ​​China and the Qinling area, and what is their physical characteristics and survival background?

These major topics related to archeological research in Chinese and Qinling areas have new discoveries and continuous research on archeological materials.

The excavation of the southern Zhengzong Cave site of Hanzhong City provides a strong support for the "multi -regional origin theory" of the origin of modern people in China.

Cultural carrier is 100,000-15,000 years away

From 2018 to 2019, with the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archeology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Ancient Human Research, Nanjing University Geography and Ocean Sciences, and Longgang Temple Management Committee of Nanzheng District, Hanzhong City , Two annual rescue archeological excavations were performed on the old stone artifact site in Nanzheng District, Hanzhong City. The cave is located on the third level of Liangshan Yumai and the right bank of the Hanjiang River. It is about 3 kilometers northwest of Longgang Temple National Archaeological Site Park.

Discovery site at the Simon Cave site (remake of information pictures)

Discovery and preliminary studies have shown that the cultural relics of the Sumidong site can be divided into three issues:

The first phase is about 100,000 years or earlier, and found a small amount of stone tools and animal fossils;

The second phase is about 70,000 to 50,000 years old, and the number of stone tools and animal fossils has increased sharply;

The third phase was about 3-15,000 years ago. It was found that there were ruins such as human activity, stone tool processing points, and fire ponds. The number of very rich stones and animal fossils was abundant. There were also 2 early modern human dental fossils unearthed in the strata.

Human tooth fossil unearthed from the site

The stone products found in each period are all small stone stone industry systems. The processing technology is "simple stone nuclear-stone chip technology", which has the characteristics of complex and continuous development.

Provide a basis for the evolution of early modern people

"The late Homo sapiens fossils that have been unearthed from the Nantong Cave Site have been unearthed from 30,000 to 20,000 years old and a large number of old stone products from 70,000 to 40,000 years. In the blank period, it can be seen that the "blank period 'does not exist." Wang Xiejiang, a researcher at the Institute of Ancient Human Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said that the discovery of the site provided strong support for the "origin theory of multiple regions" for the origin of modern people.

Human tooth fossils unearthed from Kumu Cave are the first time the early modern human fossils discovered in the Qinling area. It is the first time that the early modern human fossils were excavated in the Qinling area of ​​the north -south transition area of ​​China. The diffusion and time and space distribution of people in China provide very critical materials.

The core of the 土 出 Cave site unearthed

The strata accumulation of the site is basically continuous, the layers of relationships are clear, and the nature of the unearthed relics is clear. It provides precious human fossils in studying the continuous evolution of ancient human constitutions and its culture, uninterrupted development, and the middle-late transition in the middle-late period. Evidence of cultural relics and strata years and ancient environment.

Stone chip unearthed at the site

Wang Shejiang pointed out that especially the early modern human fossils and stone products with clear student relationships and the characteristics of the characteristic characteristics of the North China stone piece stone industrial system showed that their production and users should be early modern people living in Kimong Cave. The small stone sheet stone industry is the stone tool industry, which has been popular in the North China region in the early days of the northern stone era in China. The change, which fully indicates that the early modern people in the region may evolve from the ancient people.

Therefore, this discovery provides important archeological evidence for early modern people in China and even East Asia.

Fill in human acupoints in the Qinling area

Qinling is a transitional area and dividing line of nature and human geographical geography in the north and south of China. The in -depth archeological work in the region of the region is of great significance for studying the evolution of ancient human beings and the development of Paleolithic culture.

The rich ancient human activity relics and relics were found in the Simon Cave site, which filled the gap in the type of human cave type in the late period of the old stone in the Qinling area. Important information.

Human teeth and skull residues

In addition, the number of late updates in the central and western regions of Qinling Mid -Qinling Mid -Qinling Middle and Western regions has a small number of animal fossils. There are a large number of animal fossils unearthed in the Sumidong site, which is closely related to human activities, which greatly enriches the late Qinling area late. The animal fossil material of the update of the world also provides important research materials for studying the evolution of animal population and the background of human survival environment.

The site was selected as the "Top Ten Archaeological Discovery in the country" in 2019.

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