Zhoukoudian
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Etymology
From the Hanyu Pinyin[1] romanization of the Mandarin 周口店 (Zhōukǒudiàn).
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Zhoukoudian
- An area in Fangshan district, Beijing, China.
- , 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.]
- 2021 May 11, Rowan K. Flad, “It’s a golden age for Chinese archaeology — and the West is ignoring it”, in The Washington Post, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2021-05-11, PostEverything:
- A Swedish geologist turned archaeologist, Johan Gunnar Andersson, for example led the project that led to the discovery of the “Peking Man” fossils, in the 1920s, at the site of Zhoukoudian, dating to circa 200,000 to 700,000 years ago, and also helped establish evidence of “prehistoric” culture, in the form of early painted ceramics at the Neolithic site of Yangshao, dating to circa 5,000 to 3,000 B.C.
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References
- ^ “Selected Glossary”, in The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China, Cambridge University Press, 1982, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 476, 477: “The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin, […] Chou-k'ou-tien (Zhoukoudian) 周口店”
- ^ Leon E. Seltzer, editor (1952), “Chowkowtien or Chou-k’ou-tien”, in The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World, Morningside Heights, NY: Columbia University Press, →OCLC, page 405, column 3
Further reading
- Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Zhoukoudian”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 3565, column 2
- Zhoukoudian, Choukoutien, Chou-kou-tien, Chou-k'ou-tien at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.