major discovery!Hubei discovered "Yixian people No. 3 scout"

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

The reporter learned from the "Archeological China" major project conference held by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage on the 28th that a Liangzi site in Hubei Xuezheng found a ancient human skull fossil, named "Yixian No. 3 Slotia". 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.

Since 2021, the Hubei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archeology has conducted systematic archeological excavations on the Liangzi site of the school. No. 3 ecstasy stone currently exposed forehead (including eyebrow ridges), orbital, top bone, left cheekbone and the left side of the temporal bone and the left side of the temporal bone, and the shape is clear and no obvious deformation occurs. At the same time, it is accompanied by a large number of animal fossils and stone products unearthed.

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.

At the press conference, the latest archeological discovery of the ruins of the Kunming Hebo of Yunnan, the Kaifengzhou Bridge of Henan and the Luohe River, and the ancient port site of Wenzhou, Zhejiang. The ruins of the Kunminghe Institute of Kunming, Yunnan provided clues to the county's county governance in the Western Han Dynasty. It is an important empirical evidence of the formation and development of unified multi -ethnic countries. A microcosm of the Structure of Tokyo City in the Northern Song Dynasty has outstanding value for the structural layout and the history and culture of the Grand Canal; the ancient port site of Wenzhou, Zhejiang vividly reproduces the prosperity of Wenzhou Port during the Song and Yuan Dynasties.

Source: Xinhua News Agency

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