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1 Shaanxi History Museum is a sizeable national museum with a wide range of modern facilities. It’s located about one mile south from the city wall. The Museum has the style of Tang dynasty buildings. It covers an area of 5,000 square meters. Its collection of cultural relics reaches 370,000, dating from the simple stone down to all kinds implements in social life before 1840. It houses the cultural heritage of Shaanxi and shows the development of the Chinese civilization. It was built in 1983 and was open on June 20, 1991. The exhibitions of Shaanxi History Museum include the permanent exhibitionA ncient Civilization in Shaanxi (Exhibition Room 1-3); topic exhibitionTreasures of the Great Tang Dynasty (Exhibition Room 4) and Mural Paintings of the Tang Dynasty (-1 F); and the temporary exhibition (Exhibition Room 5-7). Ancient Civilization in Shaanxi Exhibition Room 1 Exhibition Room 1 focuses on the history of Shaanxi during the Prehistoric A ge, which ranges from 1,150,000 years ago to the 2lst century BC . Shaanxi is an important source of information on the origin of the human race in A sia. The fossil of a man’s skull discovered in Lantian of Shaanxi was the earliest known Homo erectus in North Asia. After the discovery of the mans fossil in Lantian, the fossil of a rather complete hominid skull was found in Dali County, Shaanxi Province in 1978. The hominid belonged to a new stage of human evolution. The stone implements ever used by the Dali Man are relatively small in size. Yangshao Culture dates about 7000-5000 years back. On display here indicate that Banpo Man lived in the matriarchal clan community and had a relatively high level of productivity during Yangshao Culture period. The Zhou Clan w