In the golden autumn of October, the afternoon Yuanmou is comfortable and pleasant. Follow the road through Danawu Village, Xiaocun Committee, Laocheng Township, Yuanmou County, about 200 meters east of the village, a piece of red land buried with the code of human survival and evolution - Yuanmou Ape Site is caught in the eyes.
"In 1972, the expedition team took a photo to find the place where two " Yuanmouren " incisor fossils were found, and the location was selected for the formal excavation in 1973..." Next to the unearthing site of the "Yuanmouren" tooth fossil, Mr. Jiang Chu, the former director of the Yuanmouren Exhibition Hall and associate research librarian of the Cultural Relics Museum, told reporters in detail.
On May 1, 1965, in order to cooperate with the construction of Chengdu-Kunming Railway , Mr. Qian Fang of the Institute of Geological Mechanics of the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences discovered two teeth fossils suspected to be ape man during the Yuanmou inspection. Later, it was named "Homo Yuanmou New Subspecies" and was abbreviated as "Homo Homomo". Later, it was about 1.7 million years old by paleomagnetic measurement. It is the earliest Homomo fossil in China and even Asia.
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February 22, 1972, Xinhua News Agency released this major discovery to the world. " People's Daily " also published an article reporting: "This is another important discovery after the discovery of Peking Man and Lantian Man in the northern part of my country. It has important science for further research on ancient humans and the geology of the Quaternary in the southwest my country. Value. "
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"The discovery of "Yuanmouren" has advanced China's human history for more than 1 million years, indicating that Yunnan in the Yangtze River basin is a key area for human origin and development. It has effectively challenged the theory of human origin Africa and provided strong scientific support for the pluralistic theory of human origin and development. "Yuanmouren" is written into the homepage of Chinese history textbooks as the beginning of Chinese human history.
1965, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Geology Museum , Beijing Natural Museum and other units have conducted three investigations and five excavations on the site, and found two "Yuanmouren" incisor fossils, and unearthed 1 piece of tibial fossils of ancient human tibial fossils, pointed bone instruments, artificial stone products and bone fragments and other ancient human fossils and relics.
In 1989, Yuanmou County was built and opened in Yuanmou Exhibition Hall. In 2010, Yuanmou Museum was newly built and opened to the public for free. The museum is now a national third-level museum of . It is a special museum of natural science and technology, and one of the few special exhibition halls of ancient human culture and prehistoric civilization in the country.
Yuanmouren Museum takes ancient humans, paleontological fossils and other cultural relics unearthed in the Yuanmou area as the main line, and has six basic furnishing display halls: human origin, Yuanmou ancient ape and Yuanmou people and their culture, Yuanmou ancient ape, Yuanmou people's life scene ecological restoration, Yuanmou prehistoric culture, Yuanmou prehistoric culture, Yuanmou Neolithic age and Dadunzi culture, and Yuanmou dinosaur fossil display. The "Yuanmouren" Discovery Memorial Conference and the International Academic Seminar on Ancient Man, the Quaternary Environment and Ancient Mankind Science Symposium on the Southwest Region and other activities were held, and media publicity and public communication were strengthened through various channels and methods to create a good public opinion atmosphere for the protection and development of "Yuanmouren".
Recently, the National Cultural Heritage Administration's research team visited the Yuanmouren Museum and the Yuanmouren site to investigate the protection and utilization of cultural relics in Yuanmou County, Chuxiong Prefecture. Yuanmou County, known as the "hometown of Eastern mankind", has once again attracted attention. (Chuxiong Daily All-Media Reporter Gu Wei Photography Report)
Editing丨Chuxiong Daily
Editing丨Zhang Jinxin
Review丨Cha Jun Li Yankun Zhou Kang
