“金牛山”古人类遗址位于辽河末端入海口处的营口市东,有一座不足百米高的石头山,它距大石桥市中心只有3公里。在这座不显眼的小山东南坡的崩塌洞穴中,1984年由北京大学教授吕遵谔所带领的研究生发掘出迄今为止世界上最为完整的古人类头骨、膑骨、脊骨、肘骨、尺骨、肋骨等50多件人骨化石。同时出土的还有大量的古动物化石。科学家们根据出土的大量动物群体对应和碳14测定距今已有28万年之久。这一重大发现轰动了全世界,它填补了人类进化史的空白。人类由猿人到直立人,到早期智 “Jinniushan” ancient human site is located at the end of the Liaohe River estuary Yingkou City East, there is a less than 100 meters high stone mountain, it is only three kilometers away from Dashiqiao city center. In this unobtrusive collapsed cave on the southeast slope of the hill, in 1984, graduate students led by Peking University professor Lv Zunxun unearthed the world’s most complete ancient human skull, tarsal bone, spine, elbow, ulna, ribs More than 50 people such as fossil bone. Also unearthed a large number of ancient animal fossils. Scientists have been dating 280,000 years ago on the basis of large numbers of unearthed animal populations and carbon 14 dating. This major discovery has aroused the whole world and it has filled in the blank of the evolutionary history of mankind. Humans from ape to erectus, to early wisdom