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	Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
		Zhoukoudian is a small village situated about 50 km southwest of Beijing.
		The exposure of sedimentary strata around Zhoukoudian is quite extraordinary, especially those of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and therefore attract geologists to visit the area.
		The mammalian fauna of Zhoukoudian locality 1 is the typical Middle Pleistocene fauna of North China and Upper Cave yielded the typical Late Pleistocene fauna of North China.
	www.unesco.org /ext/field/beijing/whc/pkm-site.htm (4440 words)

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		Many features of the Zhoukoudian crania, such as their "beetle-brows," and various crests and ridges on the surface bone of the skull tend to differentiate the "Peking Man" material from other contemporaneous humans.
		Zhoukoudian, Lantian, Yunxian and Hexian) and archaic hominids known from other areas of the world is currently a subject of intense debate in paleoanthropological circles.
		Skull 103 from the Upper Cave at Zhoukoudian represents an older male.
	www.chineseprehistory.org /pictures.htm (3720 words)

	Public Anthropology
		The Zhoukoudian Cave site, a series of caverns first excavated in the 1920s and 1930s, is one of the important Middle Pleistocene, temperate zone sites which scholars have used to support their theory of a hominid "behavioral model" of hunting, base camp living, fire usage in hearths, and cannibalism.
		During their own examination of 1,533 bone specimens from Locality 1 at Zhoukoudian, Binford and Stone found they could study only part of the previously published collection since unknown "attritional processes," perhaps political turmoil, had led to the disappearance of some of the materials.
		The data on bovid exploitation at Zhoukoudian allow only for the conclusion that denning animals transported and modified the majority of bones in the bovid assemblage, although the authors did find two inferred instances of hominid modification for meat processing.
	www.publicanthropology.org /Archive/Ca1986.htm (10252 words)

	Sinanthropus (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A new reconstruction of the Homo erectus skull from Zhoukoudian Lower Cave, China.
		This new 1995 reconstruction of Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien) Homo erectus was created from the comprehensive first generation casts housed at the American Museum of Natural History.
		Casts of isolated teeth from Zhoukoudian served as models for sculpting missing teeth.
	anthro.amnh.org /qtvr/sinanthropus_qtvr.htm (351 words)

	Zhoukoudian Homo erectus
		The Peking Man site, Zhoukoudian, is arguably along with Olduvai Gorge one of the most widely known hominid localities on the planet.
		Excavations at Zhoukoudian began in 1921 under the direction of Otto Zdansky an Austrian geologist, with the first hominid remains, a molar tooth, discovered in 1923.
		In one of the greatest scientific tragedies of last century all of the Zhoukoudian hominid materials discovered before WWII were lost during an attempt to send them to the United States (Shapiro, 1976; Wu and Lin, 1983).
	www-personal.une.edu.au /~pbrown3/zhk.html (1228 words)

	Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian ・ World Heritage Sites in China (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Zhoukoudian is located at the foot of Western Hill, 50 kilometers southwest of Beijing (Peking).
		Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian was granted the name of "world cultural heritage" by UNESCO in Dec 1987.
		In the 20s of 20 century, archaeologists discovered some complete brain boxes, which was created about 0.6million years ago, then they gave them the name of Peking Man. After that, some stoneware and fire-using sites were discovered in accession in Longgushan Mountain.
	chinavr.net /beijing/zhoukoudian_e.htm (417 words)

	Chinese History
		Round-topped Dragon Bone Hill lies northwest of Zhoukoudian, a town in suburban Beijing.
		The geological and topographic features at Zhoukoudian and the animal and plant fossils unearthed at the first excavation site on Dragon Bone Hill can give one an idea of Peking Man's environment.
		Zhoukoudian has the most complete fossils of Homo erectus so far discovered anywhere.
	www.chinesesoftwareguide.com /chinese/heritage/007.htm (832 words)

	Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian
		Due to the lack of capital, Zhoukoudian museum have been closed for about 1 year.
		At this new, Hu Jirong, the general manager of star-moon-sunshine solar energy co., came to Beijing on purpose and donated one million yuan to the research department, which is in charge of the protection and digging of Zhoukoudian sites.
		In Dec 1929, Fei Wenzhong, a famous anthropologist, found the first brain box of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian, which made the international academe stroked and it was put into the list of first state-level historical and cultural relics in 1961 and in 1987, it became the first world cultural heritage in out country.
	www.bcdf.org.cn /english/legacy/1/2001-12-1400023890.asp (863 words)

	Zhoukoudian - site of Peking Man
		Up to 63 percent of the mammal species discovered in Tianyuan Cave were also discovered in the Upper Cave, also on the Zhoukoudian site, but the fossils of hog-nosed badgers and musk deer only appeared in Tianyuan Cave.
		Beijing Zhoukoudian site was among the first sites in China to enter UNESCO's World Heritage List.
		It is also the only site in the world to yield evidence of human activity and mankind's earliest use of fire 500,000 to 600,000 years ago.
	www.chinapage.com /archeology/zhoukoudian/zhoukoudian.html (542 words)

	Zhoukoudian, Home of Peking Man
		In December 1929, a Chinese paleoanthropologist named Pei Wenzhong discovered a complete skull of "Peking Man" on Dragon Bone Hill northwest of Zhoukoudian, in the southwest suburbs of Beijing.
		Zhoukoudian, therefore, became the most common site for human remains with the most abundant fossils in the world from the same period.
		In 1987, the Zhoukoudian caves were listed as one of the world cultural heritage sites.
	www.china.org.cn /english/kuaixun/74857.htm (194 words)

	zhoukoudian
		Maps were unfolded at my hotel when I asked about how to go to Zhoukoudian.
		Zhoukoudian Round-topped Dragon Bone Hill lies northwest of Zhoukoudian, a town in suburban Beijing.
		Beijing This Month- The Remains of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian The remains of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian were found in a cave on Dragon Bone Hill near the town of Zhoukoudian, Fangshan District.
	nobinters.org /zhoukoudian.htm (839 words)

	Zhoukoudian Site
		The Zhoukoudian Site is located on Dragon Bone Hill at Zhoukoudian Village in Fangshan District of Beijing.
		In 1918, a site of ancient animal fossils was discovered in Zhoukoudian by Antson, a Swedish geologist and archaeologist appointed as the consultant by the then Northern Warlords ruling government.
		So far, bone segments from the bodies of about 40 humans have been excavated in the Zhoukoudian Site, with which the Peking Man's basic features can be restored.
	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_travel/2003-09/24/content_36914.htm (576 words)

	Zhoukoudian Site
		Location: Zhoukoudian Site is an archaeological site of the Early Paleolithic Age.
		Significance: The findings have disclosed the origin of human beings in the Orient, and offered solid proofs for the theory of human evolution.
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	www.chinaculture.org /gb/en_artqa/2003-09/24/content_39034.htm (543 words)

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