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This is Peking Man! When he was found people thought he was a Pithecanthropus or Sinanthropus, but they were wrong because he is like me, a Homo erectus!
At the beginning of the 20th century, a team of international paleontologists prepared to excavate a cave located in a limestone formation known as Dragon-Bone Hill, a few hours outside of Beijing. The Cave of Zhoukoudian had traditionally been the haunt of dragon bone collectors, eager to find remnants of
Archaeologists found two pieces of thigh bone (pictured) at a site close to Xuchang City in China where skull fragments of an extinct 100,000-year-old human species were previously found.
homo erectus.. The 1st evidence of the Homo species was discovered in Java by Eugene Dubois in 1891.He named his find as pithecanthropus erectus meaning the erect ape man. It is said to be the missing link. Another find was made in China ,south-west of Peking called Peking man. These had larger cranial capacity then Australopithecus lived in communal existence and used fire. The cranial capacity of Homo erectus which include Java man and Peking man varied from about 775 to nearly 1300…
Hominin group gathered around a fire
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Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (Pechino) - TripAdvisor
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