Hubei discovered the most complete upright skull fossils in Eurasia's contempora on to date

The reporter learned from the National Cultural Relics Bureau on September 28 at the "Archaeological China" major project conference that it was learned that important progress has been made in archaeological work in Xuezi Liangzi Site, Liyang, Hubei, and found a more well -preserved ancient human skull fossil, named "郧 郧 郧 郧 郧County people No. 3 ". This is the most complete upright skull fossil in Eurasia.

The Liangzi site of the school is located in Liyang District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province. It is a large -scale wilderness site in the early days of the Paleolithic Age. In 1989 and 1990, the site was unearthed with two ancient human skull fossils. It was about 800,000 to 1.1 million years ago. It belonged to the upright person and was named "Yixian people" by the academic community. The No. 3 ectumite stone is about 35 meters from the previous two cricket fossils out of the land. The buried environment, the accompanying animal group and the technical characteristics of the stone product are similar. The preliminary judgment should be the same era, and the specific annual confirmation of science and technology is required.

According to experts, people in Lixian County are at the key node of the evolution of upright people. The No. 3 skull is the most complete upright skull fossil found in Eurasia in the inland inland in Eurasia. Important evidence of development.

Reporter: Xu Zhuang, Shi Yucen

Design: Pan Yijing

Produced by Xinhua News Agency

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