Zhoukoudian

[ joh-goh-dyahn ]

noun

1. the site of fossil-bearing caves near Beijing, China (formerly, Peking), dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use.
2. a chopper and flake stone-tool industry of the middle Pleistocene found at this site.

Example Sentences

For example, a Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, guided the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian.

From Washington Post

The site at Zhoukoudian was massive, so it was this amazingly complex undertaking to excavate and recover material.

From National Geographic

Image: Yan Li, via Wikimedia Commons In the 1930s archaeologists working at the site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing recovered an incredible trove of partial skulls and other bones representing some 40 individuals that would eventually be assigned to the early human species Homo erectus.

From Scientific American