Example sentences for: zhoukoudian

How can you use “zhoukoudian” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Peking Man Caves and Museum at Zhoukoudian are still a major Beijing tourist site, although many of the important fossils are in collections outside China.

  • This excavation at Zhoukoudian, estimated to be 500,000–690,000 years old, constituted one of the major chapters in modern paleontology, since it was the first evidence that early man (Homo erectus) might have evolved in Asia as well as Africa.

  • The Peking Man Museum is located 50 km (31 miles) southwest of Beijing in the village of Zhoukoudian, whose name has become synonymous with Chinese paleontology.

  • In the hills and caves of Zhoukoudian archaeologists found the skull of a new ancestral link to mankind, Homo erectus pekinensis — Peking Man.

  • A cave near the town of Zhoukoudian held the skull of a small-brained but upright ancestor of mankind who lived half a million years ago.


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