Archaeological site

Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian

周口店北京人遗址

Beijing, China

Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
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About Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian

Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing. It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus, dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.

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