Choukoutien

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Proper noun

Choukoutien

  1. Alternative form of Zhoukoudian
    • 1972 November 26 [1972 November 25], “CHINESE DIGGING FOR ANCIENT MAN”, in The New York Times, sourced from Choukoutien, China, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on March 23, 2024, page 73:
      While hoping that Peking Man may some day return, the Chinese have undertaken an extensive program of excavation since 1949 that has yield ed enough discoveries to insure that the study of the ape‐man can continue.
      Choukoutien, 30 miles southwest of Peking, is only one of three sites where remains of the ape‐man have been found.
    • 1975, Lan-po Chia, The Cave Home of Peking Man, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 7:
      In the more remote past, 450 million years ago, the Choukoutien area was part of a sea as the presence there of Ordovician limestone proves.

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