Lantian people were found in which province?

Lantian people were discovered in Shaanxi province. Lantian people found the skull of a woman in her thirties near Chenjiawo Village, Lantian County, Shaanxi Province, China 1963. After the indoor restoration of this skull fossil, a complete ape-man skull fossil was restored. Lantian Man, or Lantian Ape, is a subspecies of Homo erectus in Lantian, China. Early Paleolithic humans belonged to early Homo erectus, living in the Middle Pleistocene and early Paleolithic.

Basic characteristics: Lantian people are hundreds of thousands of years earlier than Beijingers. So they have many differences in physical form. For example, Lantian people look more like apes, and their intelligence and limbs are not as developed as those of Beijing people. Archaeologists therefore classify Lantian people as "early Homo erectus" and Beijingers as "late Homo erectus". They lived in the Middle Pleistocene and Paleolithic. The early Lantian people were the earliest residents of Xi 'an.

Years of life: They lived about 6.5438+0 million years to 500 thousand years ago. At that time, Lantian people lived in a lush area, where there were many kinds of ancient animals, including giant pandas, oriental saber-toothed elephants, Kochi sika deer and other vegetarian animals, and even fierce saber-toothed tigers. Lantian people use simple and rough methods to make stone tools, including big pointed tools, chopping tools, scrapers, stone balls, etc., and struggle to survive in the natural environment. They hunt wild animals and collect fruits, seeds and tubers as food.

Cultural relics: In the middle Pleistocene strata in Lantian, * * * found more than 200 stone products, of which only 13 were found in the fossil-bearing strata and later strata in Gongwangling, and the others came from about 20 nearby places. There is little difference in the process of these stone products themselves. In today's lack of information, they are generally considered as cultural relics of Lantian people for the time being.