It is located in the ravine between Fenghuang Mountain and Huangyushan in the southern hilly area of Liudu Wuzhutai Village, xintai city, at the southern foot of Mount Tai. 1966, local farmers dug a well in the ditch and found a cave with a diameter of about 50~60 cm on the east side of the wall of the CAMBRIAN limestone cave, which contained 1 human tooth fossil.
After identification, the human tooth fossil is the left lower molar, belonging to a young girl. The specimen belongs to the late Pleistocene, about 50,000 years ago. At the same time, the tooth fossils of mammals such as horses, cows, pigs, deer, tigers and hairy rhinos were also found.
Among them, horses have only sporadic teeth, no spurs, and the size is similar to that of wild donkeys; Pig teeth are similar to wild boar teeth and have a typical mound structure. Tiger teeth are close to those found in Zhoukoudian, Henan and Anyang. Found 1 human tooth fossils and a batch of animal fossils.
This tooth was identified as the lower first or second molar of a young girl. According to the development of teeth and the age of contemporaneous animal fossils, the human fossils in Wuzhutai were identified as Homo sapiens, belonging to the late Paleolithic period, 20,000 to 50,000 years ago. 1993, the fossil site of Homo sapiens in Wuzhutai was selected as a cultural relic protection unit in Shandong Province. In 2008, Luohanquan was also approved as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in xintai city.
Wuzhutai Homo sapiens fossil
In the CAMBRIAN limestone cave 5 meters south of the surface. This hole is 0.6 meters high. The fossils found in the cave include a group of mammalian fossils and a human tooth fossil. A human tooth belongs to a girl's left lower first or second molar, which is 1 1.6 mm long, 10.2 mm wide at the front, 10.4 mm wide at the back and 7.73 mm high. Not stout, toothless, the base of buccal surface does not bulge, the occlusal surface is underdeveloped and ridged, and the width of the front part is smaller than that of the back part. It is more progressive than the lower molars of Beijingers and belongs to Homo sapiens.
There are tigers, horses, hairy rhinoceros, wild boar, sika deer, cattle and so on. Among them, pilose rhinoceros only lived in Pleistocene, and others may last until Holocene. Homo sapiens tooth fossils belong to the late Pleistocene, about 20-50 thousand years ago. This is the first discovery of ancient human fossils in Shandong, which fills a gap in the geographical distribution of ancient human fossils. Existing Shandong Provincial Museum.