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	Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
		In the history of palaeoanthropology, the discovery of Peking Man was not the first one of its kind; however, the discovery established a definite status of this kind in the human evolutionary history.
		The discovery of Peking Man enabled one to solve the long-lasting polemics that had continued since the discovery of Java man in the 19th century and proved that Homo erectus evolved from the ape.
		From 1921 to 1966, unearthed Peking Man fossils were six nearly complete crania or skullcaps, 19 large fragments of skulls, numerous small fragments of skulls, 15 incomplete mandibles, 157 isolated teeth, three pieces of humerus, one clavicular, one lunate, and a tibia.
	www.unesco.org /ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm (4440 words)

	ScienceDaily: Peking Man
		Peking Man (sometimes now called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.
		Homo heidelbergensis -- Homo heidelbergensis (Heidelberg Man) is an extinct species of the genus Homo and the thought to be a direct ancestor of Homo neanderthalensis in Europe.
		Rhodesian Man -- Rhodesian Man (Homo rhodesiensis) is a hominin fossil that was described from a cranium found in an iron and zinc mine in Northern Rhodesia (now Kabwe, Zambia) in 1921 by Tom Zwiglaar, a Swiss miner.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/Peking_Man (1457 words)

	Exploring Chinese History :: Culture :: Chinese Archaeology :: Peking Man
		In the history of paleoanthropology, the discovery of Peking Man was not the first one of its kind; however, the discovery established a definite status of this kind in the human evolutionary history.
		The discovery of Peking Man enabled one to solve the long-lasting polemics that had continued since the discovery of Java man in the 19th century and proved that Homo erectus evolved from the ape.
		From 1921 to 1966, unearthed Peking Man fossils were six nearly complete crania or skullcaps, 19 large fragments of skulls, numerous small fragments of skulls, 15 incomplete mandibles, 157 isolated teeth, three pieces of humerus, one clavicular, one lunate, and a tibia.
	www.ibiblio.org /chinesehistory/contents/02cul/c03s02.html (4457 words)

	World Architecture Images- Beijing- Peking Man Site
		The analysis of the remains of "Peking Man" led to the claim that the Zhoukoudian and Java fossils were examples of the same broad stage of human evolution.
		Peking Man is part of the central plot in the mystery Sleeping Bones by Katherine V. Forrest.
		Peking Man is the main part of the central plot of Carolyn G. Hart's mystery novel Skulduggery, set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1980s.
	www.essential-architecture.com /A-ASIA-E/CHINA/PEKING/PE-014.htm (732 words)

	Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian (Beijing)
		Peking Man was among the first human beings to learn how to use fire, and could hunt large animals.
		The discovery and study of Peking Man and his culture solved the 50-year-long controversy over whether ape-men were apes or men, which resulted from the excavation of Java Man in the 19th century.
		Peking Man still serves as the benchmark for judging whether an ancient creature was an ape or homo sapiens.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_flash/2003-09/25/content_43162.htm (544 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fossils of the Peking Man were placed in the safe at the Cenozoic Laboratory of the Peking Union Medical College.
		The analysis of the remains of "Peking Man" led to the claim that the Zhoukoudian and Java fossils were examples of the same broad stage of human evolution.
		Peking Man is the main part of the central plot of Carolyn G. Hart's mystery novel Skulduggery, set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the early 1980s.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Peking_Man (864 words)

	Zhoukoudian
		The cave resembled a deep well, and the deposits were stratified in 17 layers, with the remains of Peking Man distributed from the third through the eleventh.
		Peking Man is, in fact, the earliest known user of fire.
		Unfortunately, most of the unearthed remains of Peking Man and Upper Cave Man disappeared in the hands of a few Americans around the time of the bombing of pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and the whereabouts of the remains are still unknown.
	www.sino-cs.ac.uk /html/Heritage/h_zkd.htm (1340 words)

	Peking Man Site China - China tourist & travel guide for Peking Man Site, China
		It is screened by the rolling mountains and ridges on the northwest and adjoins the vast fertile land to its southwest under the boundless blue sky.
		It is estimated that the Chinese apeman, also known as Peking Man, lived in a big cave on the northern slope of the Dragon Bones Hill for about 300,000 years intermittently, 500,000-600,000 years ago.
		It's worth while to mention that the skull of Peking Man was lost during the Anti-Japanese War and its whereabouts still remain a mystery.
	www.orientaltravel.com /province/city/area/The_Peking_Man_Site.htm (314 words)

	Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
		Peking Man was discovered in Zhoukoudian Village, on the Longgu Mountain, Fangshan District,50 km south-west of Beijing.The find was the only existing human fossil from this period in Beijing.
		Also discovered in Zhoukoudian are stone points, a new production tool then, and bone articles made and used by Peking Man. Found in the caves were such tools as the larger end of an antler that had been used as a hammer and the sharp end of an antler used as a digging tool.
		The use of fire was a milestone of the development of civilization and the discovery of Peking Man has pushed back the time that man first used it by tens of thousands of years.
	www.chinatravel.com /china-travel-guides/china-attractions/china-world-heritage/peking-man-site-at-zhouko.shtml (453 words)

	The Site of Peking Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Site of Peking Man provides not only a valuable scientific basis for the study of the origin and development of mankind but also an important base for research in the origin of human species.
		On display are: Peking Man material and casts, reconstructed models of human fossils and the fossils of vertebrates discovered in various parts of China since 1949.
		The exhibits in the first section show the animal world before man. It depicts the early stage of the earth's existence when there was no living matter and the long process of its emergence from inorganic matter and the evolution of life from lower to higher stages.
	en.beijing2008.com /51/70/article211987051.shtml (471 words)

	Peking Man's Skullcap On Display In China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The discovery of Peking Man was one of the most decisive steps in the scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes.
		Man did not come from the apes, but both may have come from a common ancestor, although the branching needn't have been at the same point on the tree.
		The modern ape would not be an earlier form of modern man, so the modern ape would be fully evolved for his form rather than partly evolved toward the form of modern man. So both are fully evolved in their own modern forms.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/987106/posts (2727 words)

	Peking Man
		They are thought to belong to an adult man, an adult woman and a young adult, with brain sizes of 1225 cc, 1015 cc and 1030 cc respectively.
		Skull V: two cranial fragments were discovered in 1966 which fit with (casts of) two other fragments found in 1934 and 1936 to form much of a skullcap with a brain size of 1140 cc.
		Most creationists have considered the Peking Man fossils to be those of apes, or, even more improbably, monkeys, but in recent years the view of Lubenow that they were humans has been gaining ground.
	www.talkorigins.org /faqs/homs/peking.html (381 words)

	Chinese history-the Earliest Humankind in China,Yuanmou man,lantian man, peking man and Upper Cave Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The "Peking Man" retained the features of apes, but they could use tools in labor.
		The "Peking Man" lived in a hostile environment and used simple and coarse tools.
		The Upper cave man still used ground stone tools, but they knew how to polish and drill holes on stone, and they also knew how to make bone needles and the other similar instruments.
	www.chinavoc.com /history/earlyman.htm (563 words)

	Mighty Peking Man strikes Again
		As to the film itself, "Mighty Peking Man" aims to please on no uncertain terms, featuring a giant Ape, lots of destruction and a half-naked blond model.
		"Mighty Peking Man" (released in the U.S. in a shorter version as "Goliathon") was originally created to cash in on Dino DiLaurentis' "King Kong" remake and was shot on the cheap in 1977 by Hong Kong exploitation producers, the Shaw brothers.
		Craft's sudden renewed fame and a boat load of fortune cookies, "Mighty Peking Man" is still a harder film to market than, for example, "The Beyond" with its already built-in Italian horror fan-base, says Cowboy Vice-President John Vanco.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_990428_mightypekingman.html (701 words)

	Mighty Peking Man DVD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Tarentino, a man who recognizes a cult classic when he sees it, personally selected this film (which was originally released in the U.S. as GOLIATHON) for his Rolling Thunder Pictures, a venture dedicated to restoring the luster to forgotten cult classics.
		The plane crashed, her parents were killed, and she was raised by the Peking Man who now shares a parent/child relationship with her.
		Though the Peking Man himself is not all that impressive, Arikawa faithfully rebuilt the streets of Hong Kong on an interior soundstage for filming.
	www.dvdcult.com /rev_MightyPMan.htm (2285 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Mighty Peking Man (xhtml)
		T here is an earthquake near the beginning of "Mighty Peking Man," but unlike the earthquake in the fondly remembered "Infra-Man," it does not unleash the Slinky-necked robots and hairy mutant footstools controlled by Princess Dragon Mom.
		The plot involves an expedition to discover the giant ape-like Peking Man, who is said at one point to be 10 feet tall--although a grown man is able to stand inside one of its footprints.
		I am awarding "Mighty Peking Man" three stars, for general goofiness and a certain level of insane genius, but I cannot in good conscience rate it higher than "Infra-Man." So, in answer to those correspondents who ask if I have ever changed a rating on a movie: Yes, "Infra-Man" moves up to three stars.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19990430/REVIEWS/904300306/1023 (740 words)

	Amazon.com: Mighty Peking Man: DVD: Evelyne Kraft,Danny Lee,Feng Ku,Wei Tu Lin,Shao-Chiang Hsu,Hang-Sheng Wu,Theodore ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		On arriving at Hong Kong, Mighty Peking Man is put on display at what appears to be a monster truck rally, and Samantha is beginning to regret her decision about leaving the jungle.
		As long as Peking Man is onscreen, there's always something being destroyed or exploding, and although the effects are poor, there are loads and loads of them, so it's hard to complain of boredom, which is one thing that stops most bad films in their tracks.
		Peking Man's love interest in this story is a beautiful blonde girl who has grown up in the jungle after being the sole survivor of a plane crash as a child.
	www.amazon.com /Mighty-Peking-Man-Evelyne-Kraft/dp/6305803811 (3256 words)

	Peking Man Site Under Threat
		The Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian is facing unprecedented threat from human and natural disaster.
		When Pei Wenzhong astonished the world with his finding of the Peking Man skull at Shandingdong on Dec. 2, 1929, the cave was complete.
		Several caves with Peking man relics are located in unstable hills.
	www.china.org.cn /english/2003/Dec/81643.htm (400 words)

	People's Daily Online -- China exclusive: new clues loom on missing Peking Man skulls
		The committee was set up in Fangshan District of Beijing, home to the Peking Man skulls, in July this year by the local government and consists of many famous paleontologists in China.
		A citizen surnamed Wu in Beijing claimed a professor surnamed Gu in Gansu Province once was invited to write autobiography for Jia Lanpo, one of the finders of the Peking Man skulls and also a guru on Peking Man studies.
		The discovery of the Peking Man, who lived about 400,000 to 500,000 years ago, was one of the most decisive steps in the scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes.
	english.people.com.cn /200509/06/eng20050906_206750.html (767 words)

	China.org's page on Peking Man - China History Forum, chinese history forum
		An artist's impression of the habitat of Peking Man:
		Peking Man was a Homo erectus, according to all information I can find.
		By contrast, if all Chinese had a common ancestor in Peking Man, 4 to 6 hundred thousand years ago, Chinese mtDNA diversity ought to be greater than African mtDNA diversity, which suggests a common ancestor for Africans within the last 200,000 years.
	www.chinahistoryforum.com /index.php?showtopic=3575 (1217 words)

	Peking Man Information
		The analysis of the remains of "Peking Man" led to the conclusion that the Zhoukoudian and Java fossils were examples of the same broad stage of human evolution.
		The 1998 team of Steve Weirner of the Weizmann Institute of Science concluded that they had not found evidence that the Peking Man had used fire.
		Peking Man is part of the central plot in the mystery "Sleeping Bones" by Katherine V. Forrest.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/Peking_Man (669 words)

	Mighty Peking Man (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Above all, it has Samantha (Evelyne Kraft), a blonde jungle goddess who never wears more than a pasted-on animal-skin bikini and whom Peking Man has mentored since her childhood (when the hero asks about her parents, she shows him a wrecked plane in which two rotting corpses are still seated).
		Samantha tames not only Peking Man but all wild creatures; at one point, director Ho Meng-Hwa conveys the idea that an elephant and a leopard are sad she's going away.
		No more cogent image of the idiocy of mass entertainment has been put on film than the scene in which a huge crowd gathers in a stadium to pelt Peking Man with candy and watch his tug of war with toy trucks.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/99/04/22/MIGHTY_PEKING_MAN.html (218 words)

	Scientists search Chinese site for evidence of early man. 10/10/2004. ABC News Online
		The discovery of the 500,000-year-old Peking Man was one of the most decisive steps in the scientific quest to trace man's prehistoric development from the apes.
		Since Peking Man was first unearthed in 1929, archaeologists have found fossils belonging to 40 different individuals and more than 100,000 stone implements and other objects.
		The Zhoukoudian area, where the Peking Man's cave is located, was listed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation as a world heritage site in 1987.
	www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200410/s1216939.htm (242 words)

	India & China Stage: Team Dispatch - June 12, 2000
		The Peking Man fossils were discovered in these caves about 30 miles southwest of Beijing.
		These Peking Man specimens were classified as a type of homo erectus that had inhabited the area between 500,000 and 230,000 years ago.
		One of the most important things about the Peking Man discoveries is that they demonstrate the technological sophistication of this early human species.
	www.worldtrek.org /odyssey/asia/062800/062800teampekingman.html (880 words)

	Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews: Mighty Peking Man
		When an earthquake awakens the 100-foot tall Mighty Peking Man from a deep sleep, intrepid Asian adventures don jungle gear to journey into the deep Himalayas and capture the beast.
		Whom Mighty Peking Man had raised from kidlet-hood, after her parents burned to death in a plane crash.
		Man in a monkey suit envious of a love that can never be his!
	www.crankycritic.com /archive99/mightypekingman.html (559 words)

	Mighty Peking Man
		Only the fact that they find fresh footprints of the Mighty Peking Man keeps Johnny going; of course, it's also the reason that Lu Tien and the bearers split in the middle of the night, leaving Johnny to his fate (it should go without saying that Evil Capitalists are, by nature, also cowardly).
		But Mighty Peking Man happens to also be the Mighty Peeping Man (sorry), and throws a fit of 100 foot pique when he spies Sam and Johnny making the beast with two backs.
		Mighty Peking Man finally winds up atop a tall building with helicopters shooting at him, until Sam goes up to calm him down and the Supreme Commander gives his word that the shooting will stop (of course, he's also wiring the building to explode).
	www.stomptokyo.com /badmoviereport/reviews/M/mightypeking.html (3162 words)

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