最近收到读者来信,提出我国最早人类究竟是“北京人”还是“元谋人”的问题,特答复如下。全日制五年制小学课本《历史》上册第一页写道:“我们伟大祖国有着悠久的历史。早在一百多万年以前,我国广阔的土地上就有人类生息、活动。到大约四、五十万年前,有一群原始人类,生活在北京西南周口店龙骨山的山洞里。我们把他们叫作北京人。”全日制十年制初中课本《中国历史》第一册第一页写道:“在云南发现的元谋人,距今约一百七十万年,是我们已知的祖国境内最早的人类。”据此可知,就目前而言,根据已知的考古发掘 Recently received a letter from a reader asking whether the earliest human beings in our country were “Pekingese” or “Yuanmou”, with the following special reply. Full-time five-year primary school textbook “History” on the first page of the first page wrote: “Our great motherland has a long history .As early as a million years ago, there are human beings in our vast land, activities .To about four Five hundred thousand years ago, a group of primitive people lived in the caves of Longgu Mountain in the southwestern Zhoukoudian, Beijing and we called them Beijingers. ”The full-time 10-year junior high school textbook“ Chinese history ” Said: “The Yuanmou people found in Yunnan about 1.7 million years ago are the earliest human beings in our country that we know.” From this, we can see that for the moment, according to the known archeological excavations