New discovery of archeological major discovery of the No. 3 bone fossil of Shexian County appeared

Archaeological site archaeologists on the spot operating the ancient human skull fossil Xinhua News Agency, "Luxian No. 3 Slotia", issued "Yixian people" No. 1 and 2 fossils

□ Chutian Metropolis Daily Ji Daily Journalist Guan Qianyu Yuyu Correspondent Zhang Jun

On the morning of September 28, the State Administration of Cultural Relics held a major project launch conference in Beijing in Beijing to notify the discovery and excavation of the newly discovered "Yixian people" 3 head bone fossils in the Liangzi Site of Shiyan Shiyan Shiyan Xuexuexue Site. This is the most complete upright skull fossil in Eurasia's inland inland, which has evidenced the human history of one million years in my country.

The Liangzi site of the school is located in Miduo Temple Village, Qingqu Town, 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. It belonged to the upright person and was named "Xianxian people" by the academic community.

Why does this site have occurred in major archeological results in more than 30 years? On the afternoon of September 28, Jimu Journalists visited this mysterious "Qixian people" site on the spot.

Photo Conferry at the Liangzi Site of Liangzi Hubei Province

Early humans liked to live along the river

On September 28th, Liyang District, Shiyan City, the weather is clear and beautiful.

It originated from the Quyuan River in Shangnan County, Shaanxi Province in the southern foot of Qinling. The runoff was injected into the Han River in Miduo Temple Village, Qingqu Town, Puyang District, Shiyan City, and a mountain beam was formed at the intersection of the two rivers. No one expected that on this ordinary mountain beam, the secret that shocked the world was buried.

Xuexue Liangzi is located at the mouth of Quyuan. Local cadres introduced that the Quyuan River estuary was named after the Quyuan River was converted into the Han River. Standing at the Liangzi Highland of the school, the mountains are not high, the slope is not steep, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the environment is beautiful.

"Ancient humans like to live at the intersection of the two rivers and the turning point of the river. At that time, the climate was appropriate at the time, and the Fengshui treasure land of ancient human life." The river is closely related. In the early days of development, human society has the custom of "living along the river". Nowadays, most large cities in the world are located along the coast of the river. The overallness of the natural environment has an impact on the development of human society.

Archaeologists on -site homework

It has caused a sensation in the world's archeology community

"That's just an accident, I happened to catch up." Wang Zhenghua recalled the process of discovering the "people in the county", and the old voice was calm. At that time, the third cultural relics census was organized in Puyang. Wang Zhenghua of the Puxian Museum and Qu Shengming, Wang Zhenghua and the Xixi Museum, carried out work in Lixian County.

On May 18, 1989, Wang Zhenghua and Qu Shengming decided to conduct on -site investigations in Mituo Temple Village, Qingqu Town, because I heard that many "Tuska" was found here. The so -called keel is the bone fossil of ancient mammals. The villagers have always had the habit of digging keels to change money for money. In the afternoon of the same day, they dug a ball -shaped "stonebal" at the top of the scholar beam. On the broken cross section, the osteo stone fracture and some stars' tooth enamel were seen. Wang Zhenghua judged that it should be the skull fossil of a certain animal.

This bachelorized stone, a researcher at the Institute of Ancient vertebrates and ancient human research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a world -renowned ancient anthropological expert, Professor Jia Lanpo, identified: This is a real ancient human fossil.

Sino -French experts determine that it belongs to the late upright upright person from 1 million years through advanced skull scanning technology.

In May 1990, Li Tianyuan, an expert in Hubei Archeology Institute, and others, and were discovered a complete ancient human skull fossil at a gravel layer of 3.3 meters from the ancient human skull fossil site. Experts named these two skull rocks as "Langxian".

Experts have inferred that "people in the county" lived in about 1 million years ago, filling the gap of ancient human sites in about 1 million years from this one million years, proved that Asia is also one of the birthplaces of human beings. Two complete skull fossils are designated as national treasure -level cultural relics.

"Lianxian People" No. 3 skull stone (keep semi -unearthed original)

It should belong to the same era as the first two fossils

Standing on the scholarship Liangzi, under the blue sky and white clouds, the monument of the "Lugo Fossils from the Pixian County" is particularly eye -catching. Due to the major discovery of the fossil No. 3 of the "Langxian", it is currently in a closed state.

Lu Chengqiu, the leader of the excavation team and the associate researcher at the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, told Jimu Journalists that this is the seventh archeological excavation of the school "Liangxian people" site approved by the State Administration of Cultural Relics. , The Chinese Academy of Sciences The Institute of Ancient vertebrates and the Institute of Ancient Humans and Wuhan University jointly led the implementation of excavations and research, and the Shiyan Museum and Puyang Museum were implemented. Lu Chengqiu said that the excavation work was launched in January 2021. Since this time, archeologists have been very hard, but they are full of confidence. Sure enough, after one year of excavation work, major archeological results occurred.

Lu Chengqiu introduced that the excavation area was 203 square meters. On the morning of May 18, 2022, the archaeological team found the No. 3 skull stone buried here in the sand floor with a certain calcium glue. And stone product. On -site observations found that the skull was stored 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 fossils are currently only exposed and partial eyebrows. The lower part is still in the native soil layer. The preliminary judgment should be the same era, and it is necessary to confirm the annual confirmation of science and technology. Lu Chengqiu introduced that the fossil No. 3 of "Xianxian" found that the land was only more than 30 meters away from the first two skull fossils. It is very rare to save well. Experts say that this is the most complete upright skull fossil in Eurasia.

"Yixian people" No. 1 skull stone

The Hanjiang River Basin can be called a human evolutionary corridor

Fang Qin, the dean of the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology, revealed in an interview with Jiyu Journalists that on May 18 this year, the fossils were first exposed. It was preliminarily confirmed as ancient human skull fossils, stopped excavation and cleaning, maintained the original state, and reported to relevant leaders and reported relevant leaders and procedures. expert. Subsequently, the Archaeological Team conducted a video connection with the ancient human experts of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the ancient human research institute of the Institute of Ancient Human Research to further determine that it was an ancient human skull fossil.

According to Fang Qin, the unearthed locations of the ecstasy fossil No. 1 and 2 are only 3.3 meters apart, and the bull fossils discovered this time are only more than 30 meters apart from No. 1 and 2, which are in the same set of strata. Fang Qin also focused on the discovery of more than 200 ancient human fossils, stone products, and antique fossils including the No. 3 skull of "Langxian County". Sword teeth, rhinos, hoe, cattle, deer, monkeys, wild boars, piglets, dick dogs, etc. "These rich animal fossils and stone tools are very rare, providing precious materials for studying ancient humans and their survival methods at that time, for it, for it, it is for research. Related research on ancient human beings provides very rare on -site materials. "

The archaeological community believes that the No. 3 cord fossil of "Puxian County" is a major archeological discovery in my country's and even international academic circles in 2022. It further empirically empirically evolves has a long history of Oriental Human hometown, and the ancient culture of China is extensive and profound. In particular, compared with the "Qixian people" 1 and 2 of the "Xianxian people", which has been excavated more than 30 years ago and has severely squeezed and deformed, it has a good preservation of No. 3 skulls, the shape is basically normal, and the traits that can be provided are richer and authentic.

Three million -year -old skull fossils outlined the lively pictures of the survival and evolution of ancient people living here in the past, and at the same place, 3 ancient human skull fossils can be discovered in a row, which also makes Hubei once again become the world's attention. Archaeological hottel.

Fang Qin told Jimu Journalist that there were ancient human sites such as Meipu Human Site, Bailong Cave Site and Huanglong Cave site around the Liangzi site of the Liangzi site of the school, as well as many old stone fossils. "This indicates that the area with the core of the Hanjiang River Basin as the core is an important area for the origin, evolution and development of ancient human beings. It is a rare human evolutionary corridor. We must build this area to build a research center for human origin."

"Yixian people" No. 2 skull stone

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