Zhoukoudian

In 1972, while leading a tour group to China, he was approached by the curator at the Peking Man Museum, who asked him to look into the fate of a cache of hominid fossils dug up at Zhoukoudian in the 1920s and 1930s.

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"I believe the people who lived there might have used hematite to dye clothes, which was quite different from Upper Cave Man at Zhoukoudian of Beijing who used hematite as a sacrifice to the dead, or from Europe, where ancient people there used hematite to draw cave murals."

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Visited Zhoukoudian – the Peking Man Site and had the public bus making a special detour for me

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The oldest Chinese archaeological evidence comes from Zhoukoudian (near Beijing); between 200,000 and 500,000 years old, Beijing Man (Peking Man) (See Homo Erectus) of the Old Stone Age was found here with certain Mongoloid characteristics.

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The fossils from Zhoukoudian Cave in northern China provide a portrait of a very variable human form.

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One early example was J.G. Andersson, a Swede working for the Chinese Geological Survey in the 1920s, who led the team that discovered Peking Man (Homo erectus) at Zhoukoudian, southwest of Beijing, and the Neolithic site at Yangshao, in Shanxi.

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That and other H. erectus fossils unearthed at Zhoukoudian, near Beijing, disappeared shortly after being entrusted to a platoon of U.S. Marines during the Second World War.

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A German China specialist has brought to light the largest and heaviest book in the world, nearly 14,300 stone tablets inscribed with Buddhist scriptures found in caves near the Yunju monastery, 15 miles south of Zhoukoudian in Beijing Province.

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The cave system of Zhoukoudian, near Beijing, is one of the most important Palaeolithic sites in the world.

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But they have been hampered by the lack of suitable techniques for dating cave deposits such as those at Zhoukoudian.

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