In addition to the continuous discovery of Yuanmou man's bone fossils, Yuanmou man's various bone implements and stone tools, as well as Yunnan horses, saber-toothed tigers, saber-toothed elephants and other animal fossils have also been unearthed. Yuanmouren site is the only site containing human fossils in the early Pleistocene strata of China. Its discovery is not only of great significance to the division of strata, but also plays an important role in the development of human society and history. Although there are not many materials about Yuanmou people and their cultural relics, they are of great significance.
1February, 982, the State Council announced Yuanmou Man Site as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units. There is a monument at the site of Yuanmou people, and there is a museum not far away. The museum displays specimens of Yuanmou people's tooth fossils, paleontological fossils and other related objects and materials. In 2009, National Cultural Heritage Administration, China announced that Yuanmou Man Exhibition Hall was a national third-class museum.
Introduction to the discovery process of Yuanmouren site;
Yuanmou Basin, located between the mountains and mountains along the Jinsha River, has a dry and hot climate and is a famous "thermal dam" in central Yunnan. 1At the beginning of May, 1965, geologists Qian Fang and Pu Qingyu and his party excavated one left and one right central incisor in the early post-Quaternary Pleistocene strata in Shangnabang Village, Dana Wu Cun Basin, Yuanmou, belonging to young men, whose morphological characteristics were similar to those of Beijingers and their times were earlier than those of Beijingers. It is determined by scientific means of geomagnetic instruments.
These two tooth fossils belong to primitive humans1700,000 years ago, and belong to a new subspecies of Homo erectus-Homo erectus Yuanmou subspecies. The discovery of Yuanmou man is of great significance for revealing the history of human evolution and development.
Along with Yuanmou's teeth, there are 17 stone products, which belong to paleolithic, and their types include pointy, scraper and chopper. A large number of carbon chips and some charred bones were also found in the same stratum, and all the places with carbon chips were accompanied by animal fossils, belonging to more than 40 species of * * mammals, dating back to1700,000 years, which was the earliest primitive human fossils in China and even in Asia.
This shows that Yuanmou people not only used their own tools to engage in hunting and gathering activities, but also learned to use fire to roast their prey, and began to get rid of the era of eating animals and eating blood. Yuanmou man was earlier than "Lantian man", "Beijinger" and "caveman", thus pushing forward the age of the earliest human fossils discovered in China by more than one million years. The discovery of the site of Yuanmou Man is of great historical significance and scientific research value. China and some countries have written this discovery into textbooks.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Yuanmou Man