Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site is located in Gulong Mountain, Zhoukoudian Town, Fangshan District, Beijing, about 50 kilometers away from Beijing. It is an important paleolithic site in China.
Zhoukoudian site * * has found 27 fossils and cultural relics in different periods, more than 200 human fossils, 654.38 million stone tools, a large number of fire remains and hundreds of animal fossils. It is a treasure house of human fossils and a comprehensive research base of paleoanthropology, archaeology, paleontology, stratigraphy, chronology, environmental science and karst science.
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On March 4th, 196 1, Zhoukoudian site was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and 1987 was included in the world cultural heritage list.
The age of Zhoukoudian site ranges from 5 million years ago to/kloc-0.00 million years ago. Among them, Homo erectus (Beijinger) who lived 700,000-200,000 years ago was found.
Primitive man was discovered in Zhoukoudian, and the subsequent research was carried out in the 1920s and 1930s, which aroused widespread interest and overthrew the generally accepted era of human history. The excavation and scientific work of Zhoukoudian site is of great value in the world archaeological history and occupies an important position in the world scientific history.
They make fires by hand, collect and hunt for a living, and fish. They can go far away to exchange daily necessities with other primitive people. Neanderthals have sewed clothes with bone needles and know how to love beauty.
At the top of 1930 Gulong Mountain, an ancient human fossil, named "Neanderthal", which lived about 20,000 years ago, was excavated. Through the study of these archaeological materials, it is proved that Peking man created a unique paleolithic culture about 690,000 years ago, which had a far-reaching impact on the development of paleolithic culture in northern China.
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