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Zhoukoudian is a small village situated about 50 km southwest of Beijing. One half kilometer north, there is a narrow pass leading to a basin. Baerhe stream flows south, out of the pass. The Peking Man Site is just on the west side of Zhoukoudian Village.

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Jia Lanpo, as a young man in the 1950s, seen participating in the excavation of the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian.

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One of the cave formations where Peking Man was originally found, Zhoukoudian.

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The 'Upper Cave' on the elevated side of 'Dragon- Bone Hill', Zhoukoudian.

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Peking Man cave. It is a karst cave developed in limestone of Ordovician age (about 450 million years ago).

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Locality 4 or 'New Cave'. Situated 70 meters south of Locality 1. It measures 4 meters high, 9.5 meters wide, and 116 meters above sea level. Its entrance is formed by a narrow and long fissure and opens southwards. Its terminal end enlarges to form a big hall. The entrance was blocked by mixed deposits, but was opened after the excavation in 1973.

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The first Peking Man Skull-cap discovered.

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A frontal and an occipital unearthed in 1966 (top) and other teeth unearthed from 1949 to 1951 (bottom).

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Three well preserved skulls and a skull cap of Upper Cave Man were unearthed from the lower chamber.
The complete skull (left), and an artist's conception of what Peking Man may have looked like (right).

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Entrance to the Peking Man museum, Zhoukoudian.

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Entrance to the Peking Man museum, Zhoukoudian.

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