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Yunnan has a very long history. Mankind first appeared at least a million or perhaps as much as three million years ago. For many years Peking Man , discovered in1921, was the oldest know example of prehistoric man in China -until geologists begin planning the Kunming-Chengdu railway in 1965 and saw Yunnan's fossils. An old cowhered from the village of Yuanmou, northwest of Kunming, mentioned that had villages had been grinding up dragon bones as medicine for years. The surveyors, recognizing the common name for fossils, found a gully near Yuanmou whose cliff-like walls contained quantities of ancient mammal fossils. Among them, a young geologist discovered two human front teeth, famous for its abundance of animal and plant fossils.