From the Island Owner to the King

"Brother Chen, you are an expert in this field and have a wealth of knowledge. Can you tell us about these rock paintings?" Sun Yue said to Chen Rui.

"Of course." Chen Rui nodded and said, "Look, there are fish, deer, goats, buffalo, mammoths, and saber-toothed tigers in the petroglyph patterns. It can be shown that an ancient primitive tribe lived here. Fishing, hunting for a living, and competing with mammoths, saber-toothed tigers, wolves and other beasts for survival resources, living a primitive life of consuming blood and fur."

Also, here, some lines depict the piles of firewood, and there is a fire on the firewood, which tells us a very important information, this primitive tribe has learned to use fire. The use of fire is a very big step forward from primitive civilizations. "

Chen Rui explained some meanings of the petroglyphs to Li Wanhao and the four while watching other petroglyphs.

The petroglyphs give very limited information.

Chen Rui was able to draw several points from these petroglyphs about the primitive tribes who once lived here.

1. Able to use simple tools, for example, it is very simple to use the method of hitting stones to make scrapers, sharps, choppers and other tools.

2. Will use fire.

3. Live by fishing, hunting and gathering wild fruits.

4. This primitive tribe that once lived here is facing great danger. Ferocious saber-toothed tigers, wolves, bears, mammoths and other wild beasts gather in the forest and haunt the mountains, not only threatening their safety at all times, Moreover, these beasts compete with primitive tribes for limited survival resources.

These are enough to show that the primitive tribes who lived here were 'people', 'fully formed people', not apes.

This is a very big message.

It is important to distinguish between 'human' and 'ape'.

We all know that humans evolved from apes.

65 million years ago. A meteorite with a width of about 16 kilometers hit today's Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, causing a huge disaster. At that time, two-thirds of the animal species on the earth, including dinosaurs, died out, the golden age of reptiles ended, and primitive mammals Animals escaped catastrophe and survived for a long time, and then evolved rapidly.

More than 50 million years ago. Primates evolved rapidly in a radial fashion, and differentiated into higher primates from lower primates protosimians.

Next,

Ape appeared.

Apes appeared 33-24 million years ago, apes arose from Old World monkeys.

From about 10 million years ago to about 3.8 million or more than 2 million years ago, two famous apes were produced on Earth. One is Ramapithecus and the other is Australopithecus.

in. The most famous is Australopithecus.

Australopithecus is called "man in the making".

2.5 million years ago, the climate in Africa began to deteriorate, the ice age hit from the northern hemisphere, and most of the Australopithecus disappeared.

However, there are two exceptions. In one case, savannahs were preserved in certain areas, where Australopithecus survived.

Another scenario is that certain Australopithecus were forced to become smart, using their ingenuity to learn to throw stones, use wood, and make primitive weapons in order to survive. With campfires, of course they are not yet 'human', but will eventually evolve into a human genus.

Then Homo erectus appeared on Earth. Homo erectus was a 'fully formed man' who knew how to use fire, began to use symbols and basic language, and could use more refined tools.

Rather than simply learning to throw stones and use wood, Australopithecus, who was forced to become smart, took the approach of hitting stones with stones. Touching the anvil method, smashing the method to make stone tools. Cut branches and make tools. A more refined tool indeed.

From the limited information given by the petroglyphs, Chen Rui can basically determine that the primitive tribe that once lived here was Homo erectus.

The age may be around 2 million to 2.1 million to 2.2 million years old.

Because, there is evidence that the Sahara Desert was formed more than 2 million years ago, and the Sahara Desert more than 2 million years ago was a lush grassland dotted with lakes and ponds.

If there were primitive tribes living here, there were enough food sources and a good living environment for them to survive here.

That was only before the formation of the Sahara Desert, when the Sahara Desert was still a green grassland.

The living remains of Homo erectus more than 2 million years ago!

There are also many rock paintings left by Homo erectus on the rock wall more than 2 million years ago.

In fact, there are more surprises waiting for Chen Rui to discover, such as the fossil remains of Homo erectus who lived here.

If it is announced, it is estimated that the archaeological and academic circles around the world will shake n circles.

For example, Yanjing ape-man, scientifically known as 'Yanjing Homo erectus', came to Zhoukoudian about 700,000 years ago, lived here for nearly 500,000 years, and about 200,000 years ago, The Yanjing Ape-Man left.

The discovery of the Yanjing ape-man and the announcement of this news shocked the world academic community.

In China, the famous Yanjing man's skull, the legend and whereabouts of this thing is estimated to be a biography of tens of thousands of pages.

The Homo erectus that once lived here was more than 2 million years old.

If the influence level of Yanjing ape-man can be shaken by the archaeological and academic circles all over the world.

Then, the level of influence of Homo erectus found here can shake the archaeological and academic circles around the world for 4 times.

If compared by earthquake level.

The Yanjing Ape-Man shook the world with a magnitude 10 earthquake.

The shock of Homo erectus here to the world was an 11-magnitude earthquake.

The discovery of the Yanjing man's skull is meant to confirm the existence of Homo erectus, to clarify the sequence of human evolution, and to provide strong evidence for the theory of 'from ape to man'.

Here, Homo erectus found that the significance was even more significant.

You must know that more than 2 million years ago was a very special time period in the history of human evolution.

During this time, due to the deterioration of the climate in tropical Africa, Australopithecus was forced to begin to evolve from apes into a genus, adapt to the environment, and survive.

During this period of time, the australopithecines that had just evolved into Homo erectus were once again forced by the harsh environment to start the first great migration, which spread from Africa to Asia.

The earliest representative of the African Homo erectus lineage was the Zhuang man.

The discovery of this living relic can tell the world that the Zhuang man is not the earliest Homo erectus lineage, but the unnamed Homo erectus discovered by Chen Rui here.

It directly pushed the history of the existence of Homo erectus forward again by 200,000 or 300,000 years.

The petroglyphs are just a part of this living relic. (To be continued)