Who was the earliest hominid in China, China?

Yuanmou man was named "Yuanmou Homo erectus" because he found this place on the hill in the northwest of Shangnabang Village, Yuanmou County, Yunnan Province, and his English name was sculpture.

1 may, 9651day Yuanmou man's tooth fossils were found in shangnabang village, Yuanmou county, Yunnan province. Yuanmou County is known as "the hometown of Yuanmou people". 1976 according to the paleomagnetic method, the life age was about1700,000 years ago, and the difference between before and after was not more than100,000 years.

Yuanmou man was earlier than Lantian man, Beijinger and Neanderthal man, thus advancing the age of the earliest human fossils discovered in China by more than one million years.

The discovery of the site of Yuanmou Man has important historical significance and scientific research value. China and some countries have written this discovery into textbooks.

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Yuanmou people's living environment is inferred from the animal and plant fossils preserved by * * *. Generally speaking, the animal fossils of the third and fourth members of Yuanmou Formation are called Yuanmou Fauna, and they are considered to be animals born with Yuanmou people.

Mammalian fossils born with Yuanmou man * * * include 29 species including Nihewan saber-toothed tiger, mulberry stone hyena, Yunnan horse, claw-hoofed beast, china rhino, Shanxi axis deer, etc. All of them are extinct species, some (38.8%) belong to Pliocene and early Pleistocene residual species, and most of them are common native species in early Pleistocene.

From the living environment, Yunnan horses live in grasslands, fine-haired muntjac and lake muntjac live in tropical rain forests, bamboo rats, compound-toothed pikas and other animals live in bushes, and Nihewan saber-toothed tiger lives in forests. According to the analysis of plant spores, the trees are mainly pine trees and elm trees. There are many herbs.

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