Zhoukoudian - The Peking Man Site

clipped from www.unesco.org Zhoukoudian is a small village situated about 50 km southwest of Beijing. The Peking Man Site is just on the west side of Zhoukoudian Village. The exposure of sedimentary strata around Zhoukoudian is quite extraordinary,especially those of the Pliocene and Pleistocene, and therefore attract geologists to visit the area. On the other hand, the area also bears rich Ordovician limestone with which the local habitants make lime. It is by quarrying the limestone that local habitants find, in some fissures, the so-called Dragon Bones, which scientists call fossils. The first Peking Man Skull-cap discovered In February 1918, Johann Gunnar Andersson, a famous Swedish geologist and archaeologist, was told that there were some fossils at what was called Chicken-bone Hill near Zhoukoudian. He was then serving as an adviser onmineral affairs in the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce of the Chinese Government. Peking Man teeth unearthed from 1949 to 1951 A frontal and an occipital unearthed in 1966