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Wushan Man & Yuanmou Man
Living in the
Wushan Mountains
ranges in Three Gorges Region about 2,000,000 years ago, the Wushan Man is the most primitive human being that had been found in China as well as in Asia. However, the site of Wushan Man was not known to archaeologists until the 1980s when fossils were excavated in Longgupo in Wushan County,
Chongqing Municipality
, including some primordial tools made out of stone which were used at that time. The discovery shocked the whole world, as it meant that the popular notion that Africa was the acknowledged birthplace of the upright human species would be overturned. This would imply that the Three Gorges region is among the cradle of the human beings.
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