Chinese Peking Man Site

Peking Man Site

Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian was authorized by UNESCO World Heritage Committee as world cultural heritage. Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian is located in Longgu Hill of Zhoukoudian Fangshan area in Beijing, 50 kilometers away from Beijing city. In 1929, the Chinese ancient biologist Pei Wenzhong found ancient human’s teeth and skeleton and a complete skullcap here as well as the sites of Peking people’s living, hunting and usage of fire which proved that there had been human activities 500000 years ago in Beijing area. Then the archeologists were excavating and a complete ape-man skullcap which was 600000 years ago was unearthed and was named as Peking ape-man. Some other stoneware and fire sites which the Peking ape man had been used were unearthed successively. This founding and research established an irreplaceable position of this site in the world paleoanthropology research. Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian has been the most affluent and vivid human fossil resources, most complete botanical fossil , as well as the deepest-researched paleoanthropologcial site all over the world.6 skullcaps, 12 skullcap debris , 15 mandibles, 157 teeth as well as fractured femurs and tibias which belonged respectively to 40 young and old female and male were unearthed totally at Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian. 100000 stoneware and fire ashes sites and burnt stones and burnt bones were also unearthed. Through the research about these archeological resources, we prove that Peking ape man lived 690000 years away from now with creatures of characteristic Paleolithic culture which had deep affluence on the development of Paleolithic culture North area of China. The founding of Peking man site at Zhoukoudian took several ten thousand years earlier of the history of the usage of fire. There are thick fire ashes in the caves where they had been living.