On November 15, 1989 (the 18th day of the tenth lunar month), the skull fossil of "Australopithecus" was discovered in Hubei.

On November 15, 1989, the newly discovered skull fossil of "Australopithecus" in Yunxian County, Hubei Province announced to the world that China is one of the birthplaces of early humans.

This skull fossil, which has just undergone preliminary repair by experts, looks much lower than the skull of the "Peking Man". From the exposed maxillary dental arch and hard palate, it can be clearly seen that the dental arch is nearly parabolic in shape, and the front dental arch is obviously curved; the cheek teeth on both sides have a slight tendency to spread back and forth. The incisors are relatively steep, the canine teeth are not large, and the molars have low crowns. The palate is deep and the zygomatic process is located more anterior. Experts believe that these are typical characteristics of "Australopithecus". More than a dozen experts and scholars, including Jia Lanpo, a well-known archaeologist and paleoanthropologist in my country, agreed that this skull belongs to the "Australopithecus" category and has been around for one to two million years. It is believed that this discovery is the first time in my country and in Asia. Jia Lanpo said that this discovery can be compared with the significance of the first skull discovery of Peking Man.

Australopithecus fossils are important physical data for studying the origin and development of human beings. Since the 1920s, a considerable amount of Australopithecus fossils have been found in Africa. The academic community generally believes that Australopithecus is the direct ancestor of humans, so the world academic community believes that Africa is the birthplace of human beings. The discovery of Australopithecus in Yunxian County proves that China is also the birthplace of human beings in the world. This major discovery was made by Wang Zhenghua and Qu Shengming of Hubei Yunxian Museum during a cultural relics census in May this year in the village of Mituosi, Quyuan River Estuary, the county.