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Has the Fanchang herringbone cave site been written into the history books?
1May, 998, a paleolithic site (named "Renzidong Man") was found in Fanchang County, Wuhu City, Anhui Province, and many stone and bone artifacts were found with processing traces. Archaeologists infer that these stone and bone artifacts should be tools made by ancient humans, and think that this site should be the site of early Pleistocene human activities about 2 million to 2.4 million years ago.

But whether it is an artificial product has caused great controversy in academic circles. In addition, it is not enough to have stone tools, but only indirect evidence. The key is to find human fossils.

Unfortunately, the ancient human fossils (preferably skulls) that experts have been looking for have not been found. . .

Yuanmou people in Yunnan lived about1700,000 years ago, and the tooth fossils unearthed by Yuanmou people naturally became conclusive evidence.

Skulls have also been unearthed in Beijing, and now they are lost, but they have indeed been photographed and actually existed.

Lantian people also found skulls.

Although many stone tools have been unearthed in Fanchang herringbone cave, the evidence is not sufficient, and only the discovery of human fossils is the most convincing.

As far as I know, Fanchang herringbone cave has been excavated twice, but both failed. It has been protected at present. If you want to rewrite the textbook, you have to wait for the next excavation and unearthed more powerful evidence.