| 1. | Human fossils unearthed there are helping to reconstruct the earliest stages of human existence .
出土的人类化石有助于复原人类生活的最早期阶段。 |
| 2. | Excavations here from 1936 to 1941 led to the discovery of the first hominid fossil at this site
这处遗址从1936年至1941年进行挖掘，发现了早期原始人类化石。 |
| 3. | Later , 50 fossils of meganthropus palaeo and pithecanthropus erectus / homo erectus were found half of all the world ' s known hominid fossils
后来， 50种化石先后在这里被发现，包括远古巨人，猿人直立人/直立人，占世界已知原始人类化石的一半。 |
| 4. | The next year , during paleontological excavations , primitive stone tools came to light , bringing with them the tantalizing possibility that fossilized human remains might eventually follow
第二年，古生物学家在那里发掘出原始石器，让人兴起也许还能找到人类化石的希望。 |
| 5. | Us researchers believe the jaw of a man found in romania , dating back 34 , 000 to 36 , 000 years , is the oldest such fossil of a modern human
美国研究人员认为，在罗马尼亚发现的人类颌骨化石，就是生活在距今3万4千年至3万6千年以前的人类化石。就是说，是现代人最古老祖先的化石。 |
| 6. | Finally , in 1991 , on the last day of the field season , the crew found what they were looking for : a hominid bone , discovered underneath the skeleton of a saber - toothed cat
终于，在1991年田野季预定结束的那一天，工作人员在一头剑齿虎的遗骸下发现了他们一直在找的人类化石。 |
| 7. | The caves of the sierra de atapuerca contain a rich fossil record of the earliest human beings in europe , from nearly one million years ago and extending up to the common era
阿塔皮尔卡山洞穴中发现了大量早期人类化石，经考证是欧洲最早的人类化石，可以追溯到100万年以前至公元纪年这段时期。 |
| 8. | In china , there is a widely accepted " temporal gap " between 40 - 100 ka of human presence , which is recognized as an important evidence in favor of the " out of africa " hypothesis
依原有的年代框架，我国的重要晚期智人化石均在30ka以内，并存在“时间缺环” ，即缺少有确实年代依据的40 - 100ka间的人类化石。 |
| 9. | Now , the remains of peking man in zhoukoudian boast the most plentiful humanfossil , the most various species of associated animal and plant fossils in the world and the most extensive research work in then has been carried out
这一发现和研究，奠定了这一遗址在全世界古人类学研究中特殊的不可替代的地位。周口店遗址是世界上迄今为止人类化石材料最丰富伴生动植物化石门类最全而又研究最深入的古人类遗址。 |
