The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Chouk’outien

a habitation site of the early Paleolithic in the K’uoch’ieht’ang cave, located near the Chouk’outien railroad station, about 45 km from Peking. Remains of Sinanthropus (Peking man) were discovered at the site.

Mentioned in

Pei Wen-Chung

References in periodicals archive

Preliminary report on the Choukoutien fossiliferous deposit.

Meat-acquisition patterns in the Neolithic Yangzi river valley, China

After extensive study of prehistoric arrowheads, pottery shards, bone fragments, and cave paintings, paleoanthropologists all emphatically agree: Our early ancestors in Swartkrans (Africa) and Choukoutien (China) did not adjust their Cave Program Object Memorandum (CPOM) to establish a multi-year study, costing several thousand she-goats and an equivalent number of hand-crafted stone chopping tools, in order to determine the operational value of fire.

Weird Leonards in history: the intuition study

(8) On Choukoutien cave, see Guo Shilun, et al., "Age and Duration of Peking Man Site by Fission Track Method," Abstracts, 15th Annual Conference on Particle Tracks in Solids, Marburg.

How old is it? How do we know? A review of dating methods--Part Three: thermochronometry, cosmogenic isotopes, and theological implications

The most famous research result of Teilhard's work in China was his involvement in the discovery of Sinanthropus pekinensis or Peking Man in Choukoutien (Zhoukoudian) near Beijing in 1929.

Teilhard de Chardin: evolution of a priest-geologist

All content on this website, including dictionary, thesaurus, literature, geography, and other reference data is for informational purposes only. This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.