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Searching Chinese pharmacies for new fossil specimens was "an established stratagem of fossil-hunters in the Far East." [6] Western investigation of dragon bones led to the discovery of Peking Man and Gigantopithecus blacki. [15] [16] Wang Yirong identified the ancient Chinese oracle script on long gu in 1899. [17]
The coiled dragon or snake form played an important role in early Chinese culture. The character for "dragon" in the earliest Chinese writing has a similar coiled form, as do later jade dragon amulets from the Shang period. [13] Ancient Chinese referred to unearthed fossil bones as "dragon bones" and documented them as such
Wang Yirong, Chinese politician and scholar, was the first to recognize the oracle bones as ancient writing. Shang-era oracle bones are thought to have been unearthed occasionally by local farmers [14] since as early as the Sui and Tang dynasties, and perhaps starting as early as the Han dynasty. [15]
The Longgu Cave [2] (simplified Chinese: 龙骨洞; traditional Chinese: 龍骨洞), literally meaning "Dragon Bone Cave", [3] also known as Giant Ape Cave, [4] is a cave located in Longgu Slope, Jintang Village, Gaoping Town, Jianshi County, Enshi City, Hubei Province. [5]
Feast your eyes on China's "dragon" dinosaur. It roamed the earth 160 million years ago, during the Jurassic Period. "A member of the research team from the University of Alberta ... told CNN it ...
The Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site currently sits 128 m (420 ft) above sea level. The fossil-bearing sediments are divided into 27 localities, and Peking Man is known from Locality 1 ("Dragon Bone Hill"). This 40 m (130 ft) deep locality is further divided into 17 layers, of which fossils are found above Layer 13, and Peking Man from Layers 10–3.
Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
A report from the Washington-based Information Technology and Innovation Foundation argues China is already ahead of the U.S. in some industries.