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Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum

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World Heritage, the national 4A level scenic spots, national cultural heritage, national patriotism education bases. It is located in the town of Fangshan District of Beijing Zhoukoudian, about 48 kilometers away from Beijing. It is a world famous ancient vertebrate and ancient human archaeological sites, the "Peking Man," the birthplace.

Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum

The ruins were found and excavated 27 sites have academic value, unearthed a large number of ancient human fossils, stone tools and animal fossils Pleistocene and rich with the remains of the fire, and at the top of the cave unearthed the earliest tombs and decorations, become the world's only preserved ancient north-south Wuliushiwan prehistoric human activity in ancient remains of the earliest human use of fire and evidence of ruins. In the world (especially in East Asia), Homo erectus and Homo sapiens evolution and survival mode is established on the basis of the Zhoukoudian site on a great extent. Meanwhile, the Zhoukoudian site in North China Quaternary speleothems or standard profile, a vast reservoir of information resources in the stratigraphic division and correlation, biological evolution and environmental change.

Zhoukoudian Site Museum was rebuilt on the basis of the ape-man exhibition hall of 1953 on the premises of an area of ​​1,000 square meters, more than 600 pieces of cultural relics collection, major discoveries archaeological sites. The basic display consists of five parts: historical review, physical characteristics and cultural relics of Peking Man, Peking Man living environment, the Zhoukoudian site each fossil sites, the latest results show the Zhoukoudian site. Animal fossils on display, the remains of the ashes of the fire are rare in the world of the real thing. The museum displays the current model of human fossils excavated from Zhoukoudian site group, animal fossils, stone tools and other exhibits. Peking Man Site (also known as the first place or ape Cave) is one of the most famous, the keel is located in the mountains, began excavations in 1921, from about five or six hundred thousand years ago, Peking Man lived here off and on for about 20 years. The excavation hole after several decades, and found nearly 200 human fossils (on behalf of 40 different male and female ape individuals), tens of thousands of pieces of stone, ash layers and hundreds of species of mammal fossils. Apart from Peking Man site, also includes locations containing human fossils and cultural relics or fossils of more than 20 fourth place, Cave site, fifteenth place, which form a group including fossil sites of different periods. In scientific research, culture and ancient history of mankind occupies an important position. This is by far the world's most abundant material in contemporary ruins, most comprehensive and most representative of ancient human remains, in both paleoanthropology and Quaternary Geology plays an important role.

Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site Museum

Appropriate travel season: tourists are most concerned about is the appropriate travel season Man Site at Zhoukoudian, in fact, for this ancient human remains at all seasons all have their own views. Spring, mountains and plains of the peach, apricot Code here and put into a sea of ​​flowers, stroll in here feel like being in paradise, he went to Wonderland; summer, between rich vegetation mountain, covered with green, although there is no towering old trees, but still so you kind of mysterious feeling, as if the scene ape chasing prey in the bush would suddenly appear; the harvest is part of the fall, if you come Zhoukoudian in this season, and you will be surprised, that came to the Fragrant Hills, large the sumac dyed a red here, coupled between ripe persimmon covered branches, allowing you to really feel the joy of harvest and satisfaction; snow, it is a good time to visit here, although the traffic a little inconvenience, but it is worth swim, because the snow turned into the white world of snow here, standing on top of the hill, look to the plains, majestic feel thousands of miles Piao, feel the magnificent land of China in this ancient human sites, then it is a use that language to describe mood.

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Address: Fangshan District of Beijing Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian Avenue

Getting There: take the 646,616,971,917,917 and other regional bus to transfer 38 Road intersection Zhoukoudian Zhoukoudian site to Pakistan.

MICE line: high-speed exit take the Beijing-Shijiazhuang Expressway Zhou Yan village straight road, there are signposts along the way

Zhou Bian attractions: Yunjusi, the top of Mountain National Forest Park, Hancun village

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