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Peking Man (Homo erectus pekinensis) is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene.Its fossils have been found in a cave some 50 km (31 mi) southwest of Beijing (then referred to in the West as Peking), known as the Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site.
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.
It is renowned for the discovery of Homo erectus pekinensis, commonly known as Peking Man, which represents significant evidence of early human life and evolution in East Asia. The site, excavated in the early 20th century, revealed a wealth of fossils and artifacts, including skulls, bones, and tools, dating back to approximately 770,000 to ...
Of the four species placed within the genus Sinanthropus, the first to be found were remnants of the Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis).The first fossil was retrieved by Otto Zdansky (1894-1988) near the village of Chou K'ou-tien (China) after the Swedish Geologist and Archaeologist Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960) and his colleagues instigated the excavations at the beginning of the 1920's.
The species classification of archaic humans during the Middle Pleistocene has always been a controversial topic, commonly referred to as "the muddle in the middle". In mainland East Asia, the early Middle Pleistocene was home to Homo erectus — best exemplified regionally by the Peking Man — but as the age continues, the anatomy of archaic human fossils becomes highly variable, with traits ...
The exhibition belonging to the Shu-hua Museum details the origins of man in China. Multiple casts of the skulls of early hominidae, which were discovered in Zhoukoudian, are displayed. A bronze bust of Peking Man is also on display. A small diorama of Homo erectus making fire is installed in a glass case.
Hu Chengzhi (Chinese: 胡承志; Wade–Giles: Hu Cheng-chih; 23 August 1917 – 12 April 2018) was a Chinese paleontologist and paleoanthropologist.He made the plaster casts of the Peking Man skull in the 1930s, [1] and identified the Yuanmou Man (Homo erectus yuanmouensis) based on fossils collected by others. [2]
The Cenozoic Research Laboratory (Chinese: 新生代地质与环境研究室) of the Geological Survey of China was established within the Peking Union Medical ...