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Peking man
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Peking man

Chinese representative of an early species of human, found as fossils, 500,000–750,000 years old, in the cave of Choukoutien in 1927 near Beijing (Peking). Peking man used chipped stone tools, hunted game, and used fire. Similar varieties of early human have been found in Java and East Africa.

Their classification is disputed: some anthropologists classify them as Homo erectus, others as Homo sapiens pithecanthropus.

A skull found near Beijing 1927 was sent to the USA 1941 but disappeared; others have since been found.



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