The earliest human site in China is in Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province.

On May 1, 1965, geologists in China found two teeth that had become fossilized here. Determined by paleomagnetic methods, these are ancient human teeth that lived 1.7 million years ago. This major discovery of the Oriental human history to the ancient times advanced more than 100 years. From then on, "Yuanmou people" as China's earliest human in the history books.

Introduction of Yuanmou Man

The terrain of Yuanmou County is a basin, and the land where the teeth of Yuanmou Man were found is on the hill northwest of Shangnabeng Village in the southeastern part of the basin. Through the scientists of the results of the investigation shows that 1.7 million years ago, Yuanmou Basin was a very large lake, the lake is surrounded by the mountains, the mountains, lush forests, grass all over the place. The mountains were home to Yunnan horses, saber-toothed elephants, saber-toothed tigers and other ancient animals.

"Yuanmou people" also live here, they in order to resist the beasts of the invasion, already know how to live in groups, and learned to use the simple smashing stone tools and bone tools. They hunted together for food, enjoyed the fruits of their labor, and used fire to cook food, protect themselves from the cold and drive away wild animals. Later, due to crustal movement, the area became a dry basin, and traces of the Yuanmou people's life remained in the dry environment, which was favorable for preservation, and became proof of human history.

The Xihoudu site is one of the typical representatives of the cultural remains of the early stage of apes in China, located in Xihoudu Village, 3 kilometers west of the Hehe site in the sun of Zhongtiao Mountain in the northwest corner of Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province, with a geological age of about 1.8 million years ago in the Early Pleistocene, which is the earliest Paleolithic site in the Yellow River Basin.