Tzu-yang

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English

Map including Tzu-yang (1958)

Etymology 1

From Mandarin 資陽 / 资阳 (Zīyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ¹-yang².

Proper noun

Tzu-yang

  1. Alternative form of Ziyang, Sichuan
    • 1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 274:
      The three southern fossils were in various stages of development, with Liu-chiang Man from Kwangsi as the oldest, followed by Tzu-yang Man from Szechwan (cf. 2, 57-58) and Lai-pin Man also from Kwangsi in chronological order.[...]The Tzu-yang Man is represented by a very complete skull which bears some resemblance to Homo erectus on the one hand and Homo sapiens on the other, forming a link between the two widely different stages of Chou-k'ou-tien.[...]Pebble and flake chopping-tools were used and occasionally, as at Tzu-yang, a triangular bone splint was scraped into a point which became blunt and polished through long usage.
    • 1979, Peter Bellwood, Man's Conquest of the Pacific, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 44:
      He further claimed to be able to trace Mongoloid evolution from Peking Man through a series of Chinese Middle and Upper Pleistocene fossils, including the early sapiens forms of Mongoloid type represented by the Upper Pleistocene skulls from Tzu-yang, Szechwan, and Liu-chiang, Kwangsi⁸⁴.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Tzu-yang.
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Etymology 2

From Mandarin 紫陽 / 紫阳 (Zǐyáng) Wade–Giles romanization: Tzŭ³-yang².

Proper noun

Tzu-yang

  1. Alternative form of Ziyang, Shaanxi
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