1. Peking man skull discovery 1929 12. On February 2nd, Peking Man's skull fossil was found at Zhoukoudian No.1 site in Fangshan district, Beijing. This discovery will directly affect the discovery of human evolutionary history, pushing it to 500,000 years ago. The stage of Homo erectus' existence is directly established in science. 194 1 year Peking man skull fossil missing. On February 5, the same year, 65438, he was rushed to Qinhuangdao by the army. Later, with the outbreak of Pearl Harbor, the domestic situation was not clear. So his whereabouts are unknown at 194 1. ?
Second, the lost Peking man skull This Peking man skull fossil was lost in 194 1 year, and China people began to actively look for it. Some people say that the fossils may be on Japanese cruise ships, some people say that they are in the hands of Americans, and some even say that the fossils have been destroyed. In China, academicians 1998 and 14 jointly initiated the search for the skull of Peking man. Looking for it for a long time, there is still no clear clue. A series of vibrations caused by the discovery of Peking man's skull in archaeological history are enormous, which is more like a key to decipher human history.
3. Historical significance The rich academic records left by Zhoukoudian site in Beijing show that Peking man skull fossils have 26 academic values. By studying the institutional evolution of ancient humans in East Asia from Homo erectus to early Homo sapiens in the past 800,000 years, combined with data analysis, we can see how the ecological changes and the coupling effect between man and environment developed in this long historical period. Generations of scholars can calculate and construct a historical map of human evolution through the skulls of Beijingers, and trace the origin of human beings in East Asia.