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Chapter 145: Redefining Our Ancestors! Ancestors are awesome! 【3rd change】Ask for your own reservation, ask for a monthly pass, ask for flowers!!

“How could there be so much?”

Jiang He asked stunned.

Lu Yuan shook his head and did not speak, concentrating on pulling.

Half an hour later, he swept the patch out.

7 skulls!

Two of them are very intact, and the rest are broken to varying degrees.

But it can be seen very directly, this is the skull of an ancient human.

Lu Yuan took out the flashlight Jane, looked at the skull, and carefully looked at it over and over again.

Jiang He was also watching, and neither of them spoke.

After looking at it for a long time, Jiang He said: “The nasal bone is generally large, and the bone is wide and obvious ~ prominent.” ”

Lu Yuan said, “It should be an erect person.” ”

Jiang He said: “The easiest way to determine whether it is Homo erectus or Homo sapiens is to send it to test the brain volume.” ”

Lu Yuan snorted, picked up a skull, and took a closer look.

There is already a formula for measuring brain volume, and if it is not detected, as long as the accuracy is sufficient, a rough range can be inferred.

Lu Yuan stared for a while, measured the skull length, cranial width, and supraaural height constant of the skull with his fingers, and quickly came up with a number in his heart.

Brain volume of about 900 mL.

It’s Homo erectus.

The measurement results may have errors, but they are not particularly large.

The gap between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens brain capacity is very obvious, and the upper limit of Homo erectus brain capacity is the lower line of Homo sapiens brain capacity, which is such a gap.

Moreover, the characteristics that Jiang He just said are also characteristics that can distinguish the two more obviously.

The anatomical differences between Homo erectus and Homo sapiens are limited to the skull and teeth, and the limb bones are not much different.

Of course, the fact that there is not much difference does not mean that there is a difference in paragraphs.

If there is a complete fossil of ancient human bone roads here, Lu Yuan can basically determine whether this is the site of Homo sapiens or the site of Homo erectus.

These fossils can only be preliminarily speculated, whether they are or not, or they have to be sent for testing.

“Why didn’t they run?”

Jiang He muttered.

Lu Yuan also wanted to know: “yes, why don’t you run?” ”

“Did disaster come quickly?”

“At that time, there were very few disasters that could directly affect the entire earth, even if it was a flash flood or mudslide, they had every chance to run.”

Lu Yuan said, “What I can’t figure out is how these erectus people can be so smart. ”

Jiang He looked at him: “Smart? ”

“Don’t you think so?”

Lu Yuan pointed to the ancient rhomboids and short sabre-toothed tiger fossils in the distance: “This large ancient creature, with the characteristics of Homo erectus, hunts one or two, but there are more than prey found here.” ”

Jiang He had a different opinion: “It is not surprising that Homo erectus are natural hunters, and they are nature’s best hunters. ”

“It’s still too much.”

Lu Yuandao: “Just relying on stone tools, the efficiency is quite low. With enough food, the paleodontodon that they will not continue to hunt is enough for a group of Homo erectus to eat for many days. ”

Jiang He said: “These are all speculations, no one knows what happened at that time, whether it was a flood or some other accident.” If it is a flood, it means that this is not the real place where they live, or these ancient creatures just happened to be swept up by the flood and washed here together. ”

Lu Yuan said, “There is this possibility, I will dig again to see if I can dig.” ”

To something valuable.

He still had one more doubt that he didn’t say.

That is, why do these ancient humans only have their heads left? This is actually not a doubt, he himself has an explanation.

Most of the ancient human fossils found so far are mostly heads, and there are not many fossils outside the skull.

As for complete fossilized ancient human bodies, there are almost none.

Most are heads, or other body parts.

However, a pile of broken bone ship fossils was found in Africa, and after piecing it together, a fairly complete skeleton was obtained, that is, the Lucy girl who surprised the world at that time

The reason why there are so few body fossils in ancient humans is also related to the high IQ of ancient humans.

Seeking luck and avoiding evil, resulting in almost no possibility of becoming fossils in their posthumous environment.

Unless it is a large-scale natural disaster, there is only the slightest possibility of leaving a little trace.

Lu Yuan continued to dig.

And the seven fossilized skulls he unearthed are spreading rapidly in academia.

Not only domestic academic circles, but also experts and scholars from paleontological institutes in Europe and the United States were woken up by the phone from sleep.

These seven skull fossils, once the date is confirmed, will play a very important role in the current Stone Age hominin division and research.

At present, there are not many ancient humans found in the Qinling Mountains, the most famous is the Lantian people, the site of Homo erectus found in the territory of Lantian, and ancient humans of another period were also found in that area.

In Dali County, which is only more than a hundred kilometers away from Lantian County, early Homo sapiens was also found and named Daliman.

The excavation of the skull fossils of the Dali people also filled the gap period of transition from the Lantian people to the Ding village people.

The ancient human sites found here, Lu Yuan roughly judged from the available information to be 150,000 years ago.

Perhaps a little later than the Da Li people, close to the Ding village people.

“Teacher Gu, I dug it!”

A young man shouted.

Gu Deyong snorted and walked over without hurry.

After a few seconds, Gu Deyong shouted loudly: “Xiao Lu, come and take a look.” ”

Lu Yuan stopped digging and ran up with Jiang He one after the other.

Gu Deyong pointed to the things in the pit, and in the pit were two stone tools.

On the left is a stone tool with two palms large, long strips with uneven blades.

On the right is a rectangular, 20 cm long single-knife stone tool.

Jiang He was a little dumbfounded: “Sharpening stone tools? ”

“It’s a stone grinding tool.”

Lu Yuan sputtered a few times, speechless for a while.

Grinding stone tools, one of the important symbols that distinguish Homo erectus from Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens will use stone tools, but they will also use stone tools, and both are using nothing more than a lot of problems.

But Homo erectus, so far no stone tools have been found, all of them are stone tools.

In the vernacular, Homo erectus has a bad brain, compare a tendon, anyway, stone tools can be used, and you can hunt.

Coupled with the fact that Homo erectus thigh bones are more developed than Homo sapiens and more suitable for hunting, they rely on physical fitness more than tools.

Tools were just icing on the cake for them, so they didn’t continue their studies in the industry.

Homo sapiens hunted with stone tools, and perhaps by chance, they found that sharper stone tools were more lethal to animals.

So began to try to modify the stone tools in different ways, and then the polished stone tools appeared.

Simply put, Homo sapiens prefers to use the brain more than Homo erectus, commonly known as IQ crushing.

“What the hell, where did this place come from to polish stone tools?”

Lu Yuan muttered.

When the number of paleontological fossils and stone tools were first found, Lu Yuan took it for granted that this place must be the residence of Homo sapiens.

Seven heads were then excavated and simply measured to identify Homo erectus.

But now, there are grinding stone tools, although there are only two pieces, but from the point of view of the grinding of single-edged stone tools, the technology is not rough at that time, and it has obviously been mastered for a long time.

“Those seven heads should be Homo sapiens.”

Jiang He said.

Lu Yuan didn’t speak.

His measurements, though crude, are scientific, and even if there is an error, it will not be so large.

Not to mention the skull, palatine bone and nasal bone are also very obvious Homo erectus features.

Jiang He said this, the key is that if those skulls are not erect, these grinding stone tools cannot be explained.

Jiang He said, “One of the two must be wrong. After speaking, he continued to be silent, gnawing his nails and thinking. ”

Lu Yuan said, “What if it’s all right?” I mean if, if those skulls are Homo erectus, the grinding stone tools here are Homo sapiens. ”

Jiang He shook his head, not knowing how to respond.

Gu Deyong listened to the clouds and fog, and couldn’t keep up with the rhythm of the two.

He is not particularly professional in paleontology and can only do some auxiliary work.

The young man listened to the conversation between the two before and said, “Is there such a possibility that these stone grinding tools are made of Baili people?” ”

The two still didn’t talk, maybe they didn’t think about it.

Suffice it to say, it is possible.

“It’s also possible.”

Lu Yuan picked up the hoe and said, “Everyone continue to dig.” ”

He went back again.

There are not many treasure spots here, and under the joint excavation of so many people, the efficiency is very high.

“What Lao Lu said, I don’t understand it at all.”

“I probably understood, Dr. Lu and Jiang preliminarily identified the seven skull fossils as Homo erectus, and the stone tools found before were also stone tools, all of which were characteristics of Homo erectus. But what has just been discovered is a polished stone tool, which is owned by Homo sapiens. ”

“So what? Any questions? ”

“The problem is big, how can Homo sapiens and Homo erectus stuff be in one place?”

“Didn’t Lao Lu say that it is normal for fossils from different periods to be unearthed in one place?”

“Didn’t you watch the live broadcast in the middle? Lao Lu speculated that there had been a flood here. ”

After that, it became a river channel, and the river dried up before the surface was exposed.

If so, the fossils are all from the same period.

“The paleontological fossils found before can also confirm that they are from the same period. Lu Yuan was squealed, digging hard, and soon dug up. ”

Another fossil skull, Lu Yuan looked at it, measured, well, or standing upright for half an hour.

Lu Yuan dug out a few more stone tools, he created the soil on the side, Jiang He had already squatted down, and when he opened it, he recognized it at a glance, and couldn’t help but exclaim Zhou: “Yisui stone!” ”

The two looked at each other, and Jiang He straightened his nails: “Why is there still flint, why is this place so strange?” ”

Lu Yuan also looked helpless: “It’s weird.” ”

The discovery of flint basically concludes that this is the site of Homo sapiens.

Both Homo erectus and Homo sapiens have archaeological discoveries of fire, but the difference is that Homo erectus relied on natural fire.

They will use fire, but they will not make fire and will not save.

I can only wait for the day when God thunders, chops it down, and goes up to get the fire.

Homo sapiens is different, day after day, year after year, hunting wild beasts, throwing stones that are always 100% likely to hit their prey.

Perhaps one day, the stone tools they threw collided with the rocks, creating sparks.

Homo sapiens, who likes to use his brain, wondered, picked up a stone and collided with another stone in his hand, but did not emit a spark.

So it smashed into the rock, and sparks appeared again.

Oh, it turns out that not all stones can spark.

Already good at polishing stone tools, they know very well that not every stone is suitable for hunting stones…

Similarly, they discovered that only this stone could strike a spark, so they found flint.

The clever Homo sapiens mastered more and more survivability and lost its original fear of fire.

Stupid and crude Homo erectus had the same opportunity to spot fire, but their brain capacity limited their imagination, and they were more barbaric and violent.

Lu Yuan continued to dig.

Other places also sounded the discovery

The sound of fossils.

More and more grinding stone tools have been found, and stone tools have also been found, accompanied by some paleontological fossils.

More than two hundred fossils have been found in this area, which is a considerable number.

At that time, only more than 200 pieces were found at the site of the Lantian people.

The fossils here are not much different from the Lantian people’s site, but the quality and integrity of the fossils are far beyond the Lantian people’s site.

“Boom!”

Another fossil skull.

But soon, Lu Yuan found that things were not so simple.

As he continues to dig, under the skull, there are fossils!

“Hold the grass!”

When Jiang He saw it, he couldn’t help but burst into foul language.

Is it?

Lu Yuanjian glanced at him, Dr. Tangtang, he couldn’t come up with some cultured surprise words and say a word of grass.

Half an hour later, a fossil of ancient human bone paths, which was about 70% complete, was excavated.

He was curled up, missing a leg, about 1.6 meters long, and missing two-thirds of his vertebrae.

It can only be roughly seen that it is a human form.

This is already rare.

Such a complete ancient human fossil is rare in the world.

Lu Yuan swept from head to foot, then stared at the skull, and then looked at the thigh.

Homo erectus has very well-developed thighs and is good at running and hunting, which Homo sapiens cannot match.

After ten minutes of observation, Lu Yuan was 100% sure that this was Homo erectus, not Homo sapiens!

Jiang Hezi said dryly: “This seems to be an erect man.” ”

“Be confident, remove the seems.”

“But how do you explain those polished stone tools?”

“Why explain?”

Lu Yuan said, “I am only responsible for discovery, not for solving puzzles.” Although I’m also curious. ”

Archaeologists and paleoanthropological researchers across the country looked at this complete ancient human fossil at this moment, so excited that they spat fragrant in their mouths and kept greeting herbs.

“Let’s think differently.”

Lu Yuan bypassed the fossil, came to the few treasure spots, and said while digging: “Is it possible that Homo sapiens and upright (people have lived peacefully for a while?) ”

“Impossible!”

“Don’t worry.”

Lu Yuan said: “I just put forward a possibility, to do academia, you have to make bold assumptions and carefully seek verification.” ”

“Didn’t someone in academia analyze that there were hybrids between ancient humans?”

Lu Yuan said: “Ancient humans are different from us in this regard, in case the needs of people are heavier, there are fewer women in the group, just bump into a group of erectus, good guys, the appearance is not much different, it will not be impossible.”……”

Jiang He was speechless, although it was very, but there were not a few people in the industry who held this view.

Experts in the beautiful country even compared the genomes of Neanderthals, Denisovans and modern Africans, and as a result, they crossed in ancient times

This result shocked many people’s jaws at that time, but as Lu Yuan said, it was not impossible to be in that era full of barbarism.

In modern times, there are still three brothers fighting lizards, and everyone is an ancient human, why can’t they love each other?

Reasonable, too reasonable.

“It’s here too.”

Lu Yuan dug up again.

Looking down, it was a fossil the size of a fingernail.

The two squatted down, the light went on, and the crane picked it up: “Tooth fossils.” ”

“You observe slowly, I continue to dig.”

Lu Yuan continued to dig along the side, and soon he dug up fossils the size of fingernails, more than a dozen.

All are fossilized teeth.

Lu Yuan squatted down, picked it up and put it in the palm of his hand, and Jiang He suddenly said: “I know about holding the grass!” ”

“What do you know?”

“Show me.”

Jiang He didn’t explain, his head stretched out, staring at the fossilized tooth in his hand, and then his body trembled a little because of excitement: “Sure enough!” ”

God nagged.

Lu Yuan looked closely again, and his face was stunned.

There are holes in the teeth!

On every tooth.

Seeing Lu Yuan’s somewhat dull expression, Jiang He said, “You also know?” ”

“Hmm.”

Lu Yuan nodded in amazement, and four words popped out for a long time.

“Ancestors are awesome!”

The holes in the teeth made the doubts in the hearts of the two all explained.

“Hold the grass, I’m dying!”

“Say, where is the ancestor?”

“What did you find?”

Lu Yuan said: “Those skull fossils are indeed Homo erectus, the polished stone tools are also Homo sapiens, and those ancient creatures are also hunted by Homo sapiens.” No, that’s in doubt for the time being. As for why there are traces of the coexistence of Homo sapiens and Homo erectus, it is simple that Homo erectus was killed by Homo sapiens. ”

He raised his hand and showed the teeth in his palm: “These teeth are most likely the trophies of Homo sapiens.” ”