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| Remains of Peking Man at
Zhoukoudian |
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¡¡¡¡Zhoukoudian is a village of Fangshan County, about
50km from Beijing . The nearby Dragon Bone Hill is the
home of Peking Man, where Pei Wenzhong, a Chinese paleonologist,
excavated a complete fossil skull cap, some teeth and
bones of primitive apeman in 1929. The remains of Peking
Man's daily life, hunting and the use of fire were also
discovere, whitch testified the existance of apeman in
Beijing region five hudred thousand yearsago.
The excavation
marks its valuable position in the field of anthropology.
Up to 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.
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