According to the geographical discovery of China, Yuanmou man in China was the earliest man in China. Is that so?

The earliest race in China is Wushan people.

Yuanmou man in Yunnan was 6.5438+0.7 million years ago, and was recognized as the earliest human being in China. But at present, experts have questioned this. The Sino-French archaeological team led by Huang Wanbo, a researcher at the Institute of vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, recently discovered more than 2 million years old paleolithic tools in the archaeological work of Longgupo Ancient Human Site in Wushan Miao Town, Chongqing. The results show that "Wushan people" are more than 2 million years ago, more than 300 thousand years earlier than Yuanmou.

On the afternoon of October 27th, 65438/kloc-0, a Sino-French archaeological team led by Professor Huang Wanbo, the discoverer of "Wushan Man" and a researcher at the Institute of vertebrate paleontology and Paleoanthropology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, entered Longgupo Ancient Human Site in Miaoyu Town, Wushan County for the third time, hoping to find more evidence and the answer to the question "Are Wushan Man an Ape or a Man?"

According to Professor Huang, in 1985, he excavated a "Wushan Man" fossil in Longgupo, Wushan, which was about 2.04 million years ago and at the same evolutionary level as the early Pleistocene homo habilis in East Africa. It caused a sensation in the world, which not only shook the insistence of foreign archaeologists that Homo erectus originated in Africa, but also confirmed that the earliest human in China lived in the Three Gorges area.

In June 2003, 165438+ 10, Chinese and French archaeologists jointly excavated the site for the first time. In 2004, the second joint investigation between China and France unearthed a number of animal bones, such as elephants, deer, cattle, etc., mainly leg bones, reflecting the early life picture of Wushan people. This is the third joint investigation by Chinese and French archaeologists, and the archaeological excavation work lasted 13 days, which was very difficult. Professor Huang believes that a large number of stone tools and a large number of ancient human life relics unearthed this time with obvious human knock marks can be further verified. More than 2 million years ago, Wushan people had a culture, and culture is an important criterion to distinguish whether they are human or apes. Therefore, "Wushan people" are people rather than apes, 300,000 years earlier than Yuanmou people in Yunnan.