🏛️ Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian

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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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Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian is a cultural World Heritage site in China, in Asia. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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