Zhoukoudian
is a small village some 50 kilometres southwest of Beijing and it was
here that startling discoveries of Peiking Man, who lived in the Middle
Pleistocene and remains of Homo sapiens sapiens dating as far back as
18,000C11,000 B.C. 
Peiking
Man Site in Zhoukoudian 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. Scientists have excavated 26 previous
sites of academic value here since the 1920.
Scientific
significance
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. It has established
the erect man stage which occupies the intermediate stage in human evolution. More information...
Process
of discover
The early finds were no more than three teeth. On December 2nd 1929
a complete skullcap was discovered. This initial find was to lead to
other discoveries of skeletal remains. More
information...
About
Peiking Man and Peiking Man Site
Like other erect man who appeared in Middle Pleistocene, the skeletal
morphology of Peking Man, excluding the skull, is rather similar to
that of modern man. The only difference is that the perichondrial bone
of the appendicular is thicker and the endochondral cavity smaller in
Peking Man than in modern man. More
information...
Different localities of Peiking Man Site
Since the systematic excavation of the Peking Man Site in 1927, more
than 20 valuable localities have been discovered and excavated.
1. The Peking Man Cave or Locality 1:
2. Locality 4 or New Cave;
3. Locality 15;
4. Upper Cave; Detail
information...
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