A report on Shaanxi History Museum, Lantian Man and Shaanxi
Shaanxi History Museum, which is located to the northwest of the Giant Wild Goose Pagoda in the ancient city Xi'an, in the Shaanxi province of China, is one of the first huge state museums with modern facilities in China and one of the largest.
- Shaanxi History MuseumOn July 19, 1963, a team funded by the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Palaeoanthropology (IVPP) recovered a fossil human mandible (lower jawbone) outside Chenchiawo Village, Lantian County in the Shaanxi Province of Northwest China.
- Lantian ManFossils of the Lantian Man (preceded Peking Man),
- Shaanxi History MuseumThese were publicised in local site museums constructed in the 1980's and 1990's; Lantian Man became one such spectacle for the Shaanxi History Museum.
- Lantian ManThe Lantian Man site, with hominin fossils of one million years ago, was found in Lantian County in northwestern Shaanxi province, near the city of Xi'an.
- ShaanxiThe fossils are displayed at the Shaanxi History Museum, Xi'an, China.
- Shaanxi0 related topics with Alpha