Choukoutien

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Choukoutien

  1. Alternative form of Zhoukoudian.
    • 1972 November 26 [1972 November 25], “CHINESE DIGGING FOR ANCIENT MAN”, in The New York Times‎[1], sourced from Choukoutien, China, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 March 2024, page 73‎[2]:
      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[3], 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.
    • 1978 August 8 [1978 August 8], “NCNA on How Communes Distribute Collective Income”, in Daily Report: People's Republic of China, volume I, number 153, Foreign Broadcast Information Service, sourced from Peking NCNA, →ISSN, →OCLC, People's Republic of China: National Affairs, page E 10:
      Food grain is being divided up among the commune peasants in every village of Fangshan County under the Peking Municipality, now that summer harvest is over. Each person in Nanhanchi production brigade of Choukoutien commune averaged 60 kilogrammes of wheat, nearly one fourth of the year's food grain allowance, in addition to cash.

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