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| 周 口 店（Remains of Peking Man at
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周口店是北京房山县的一个镇，距北京城约50公里。附近的龙骨山是“北京猿人”的故乡。1929年中国古生物学家裴文中在此发现原始人类牙齿、骨骼和一块完整的头盖骨。并找到了“北京人”生活、狩猎及使用火的遗迹，证实50万年以前北京地区已有人类活动。这一发现和研究，奠定了这一遗址在全世界古人类学研究中特殊的不可替代的地位。周口店遗址是世界上迄今为止人类化石材料最丰富、伴生动、植物化石门类最齐全、而又研究最深入的古人类遗址。
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Zhoukoudian is a village of Fangshan County, about
50km from Beijing . The nearby Dragon Bone Hill is the
home of Peking Man, where Pei Wenzhong, a Chinese paleonologist,
excavated a complete fossil skull cap, some teeth and
bones of primitive apeman in 1929. The remains of Peking
Man's daily life, hunting and the use of fire were also
discovere, whitch testified the existance of apeman in
Beijing region five hudred thousand yearsago. The excavation
marks its valuable position in the field of anthropology.
Up to now, the remains of Peking Man in Zhoukoudian boast
the most plentiful humanfossil, the most various species
of associated animal and plant fossils in the world and
the most extensive research work in then has been carried
out.
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