Seen from a distance, the facade of this museum is a layer of superimposed stratigraphic folds. 1March, 1993, Zou Qiaogen, a migrant worker, dug a muddy, heavy and oval "bone" in the gourd cave. When he dug it out, he was very surprised and said, "Yo, a skull". Then he found three bone fragments in a dark cave (before the excavation site of Homo erectus fossil). This discovery shocked the whole paleontology community. 20 14 In May, the museum sent the skull with the number 1 to Beijing. The face of Nanjing Citizen 1 600,000 years ago was exposed by experts such as Zhang Jianjun, a paleoanthropologist in China. This Nanjing lady has a flat forehead, a thick eyebrow arch and a deep and wide eye socket, which is quite characteristic of ancient humans, but her bones are slender and compact. The whole process of experts' restoration of Nanjing 1 citizens was completely recorded, edited into a 5-and-a-half-minute short film and played circularly in the museum. Nanjing 1 The full-length portrait of citizens also stands in the museum, welcoming the general public and tourists.
In addition, in order to facilitate citizens and tourists to enter the Tangshan ape-man discovery site, a "just visit" spanning ancient and modern times is under construction. The tunnel is 1 80m long and more than 10m high, leading to Huludong, Nanjing1the original residence.
Today we are going to talk about Tangshan Homo erectus Museum. There are four permanent exhibition areas in the museum: Tangshan-700 million years of vicissitudes, hot springs-gifts of the earth, apes-exploring ancestral remains and caves-uncovering the secrets of millions of years. Two exhibitions, "Ape Man" and "Tangshan", will be opened ahead of schedule, and the skull of Nanjing Ape Man will be sent back to the place where it was found, and the "official makeup portrait" of the restored No.1 skull will also be announced.
architectural feature
Stratigraphic profile is like telling history.
The Homo erectus Museum is located at the northern foot of Tangshan, to the east of today's Water Cube Park, within the geological park. The building area exceeds 25,000 square meters; Going? It is divided into four layers, with an interlayer between the 1 layer and the second layer; The whole building faces north and backs to the mountains.
The highlight of museum architecture lies in its facade design. The straight section is composed of several winding "curves". This pattern appears on the huge facade of the building, just like Tangshan was cut into a corner, and the clear veins and strata folds show the ancient history of Tangshan. "You can also be regarded as a wordless but rich' gobbledygook', telling us the memory of the earth before human civilization."
Exhibition hall that can be seen on the same day
The ape-man pavilion:
Skull 1 recovered.
According to the progress of the preparatory work, natural history is currently open? On the third floor, there are two exhibition areas, "Ape Man" and "Tangshan". The skulls of Homo erectus Tangshan 1 and No.2 were not exhibited in the exhibition hall yesterday. These two national first-class cultural relics will be in place on the eve of the opening of the museum and can be seen in the "ape-man" museum. According to reports, in March of 1993, Zou Qiaogen, a migrant worker, dug up a muddy, heavy and oval "bone" in Hulu Cave. When he dug it out, he was very surprised and said, "Yo, a skull". Then he found three bone fragments in a dark cave (before the excavation site of Homo erectus fossil). This discovery shocked the whole paleontology community, because skulls with such obvious features and such well-preserved skulls are really rare. Soon after, the second male skull was also found.
In May this year, the museum sent the skull with the number 1 to Beijing. After the expert of paleoanthropology in China and Zhao's "wonderful hand rejuvenation", the Panxi in Nanjing 600,000 years ago finally revealed its true colors: its forehead was flat, its eyebrows were thick, its eyes were deep and wide, and it had ancient human characteristics, but its bones were slim and small.
In fact, this difference coincides with the difference of female figure between north and south in modern China. A straight nose, thin lips and slender bones make her a veritable "senior beauty" in the south.