Another ancient human skull fossil was discovered!

China Economic Net, Beijing, September 28 (Reporter Cheng Qi) Reporter learned from the "Archeological China" major project conference on September 28 that a new discovery of ancient human skull fossils in the Liangzi site of Shiyan Xuexuexue, Hubei. "This is the most complete upright skull fossil in Eurasia's inland inland, which provides important evidence for discussing the evolution of upright people and its origin and development in China and even in East Asia." Researcher Gao Xing said excitedly.

Photo Conferry of the State Administration of Cultural Relics of Sagan No. 3 of Lixian County

The Liangzi site of the school is located in Liyang District, Shiyan City. It is a large -scale wilderness site in the early days of the Paleolithic Age. In 1989 and 1990, two ancient human skull fossils were unearthed from the Liangzi site of the school. The age was about 800,000 to 1.1 million years old. It belonged to the upright person and was named "Xianxian people" by the academic community. In June 2001, the State Council announced that the Liangzi site of the school was the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units, with a distribution range of 1.9 million square meters. With the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Relics, since 2021, the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology has conducted systematic archeological excavations on the Liangzi site of the school.

The ancient human fossil State Cultural Relics Bureau discovered by the Liangzi site of the school

Coincidentally, the No. 1 Sutch fossil "Lixian County" was discovered on May 18, 1989. After 33 years, it was also discovered by another ancient human skull fossil on May 18.

According to Gao Xing, on the morning of May 18, 2022, fossils were first exposed, and preliminary cleaning according to conventional fossil excavation procedures. At 4:30 in the afternoon, Lu Chengqiu, the person in charge of the project, initially confirmed that it was an ancient human skull fossil, stopped excavation and cleaning, maintained its original state, strengthened security, and reported to relevant leaders and experts in accordance with procedures. Researcher Xing Song, a researcher of the ancient human experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ancient human research institute, was further judged as ancient human skull fossils.

It is understood that the skull fossils are currently only exposed and partial eyebrows, and the lower part is still in the native soil layer, and the right side is embedded in the south wall. "On -site observations found that the skull was kept intact, the cheek bow was well preserved, and no obvious deformation was seen. There were a small amount of glue on the surface, the skull was full, and the eyebrow bow was obviously bulged, with ancient human traits." Gao Xing said.

This well -preserved ancient human skull fossil was named "Yixian No. 3 Slutum". "The newly discovered" Yixian County "No. 3 skull stone, about 1 million years ago, is in the middle and key links of nearly 2 million years of evolution of ancient human beings in Eurasia. The evidence of fossils has evidenced the history of human beings of millions of years in my country. "Gao Xing told reporters.

Experts said that the Liangzi site of the school has preserved the accumulation of strata, grade sequences, and systematic ancient environment information of more than 1 million years, and the ancient human fossils, paleonts fossils, and old stone cultural relics unearthed. Essence

School of Liangzi Site Archaeological Excavation Live State Cultural Heritage Bureau Picture Conferry

The No. 3 skull stone, about 35 meters from the previous two cricket fossils out of the land, was found to be about 0.62 meters depth of the ground surface, and accompanied a large number of animal fossils and stone products. The types of mammals that can be recognized include sword teeth, rhinos, rhinos, cows, deer, monkeys, wild boars, piglets, dogs, large cats and other species. "The‘ Yixian people No. 3 osteotomy ’is similar to the first 2 fossil buried environment, the accompanying animal group and the technical characteristics of the stone product. It is initially judged that it should belong to the same era. Specifically, it is necessary to confirm the science and technology annual year." Gao Xing said.

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