Peking Man - 778000 BC

Taipeh (DreamLandLibrary) - Peking Man (Chinese: traditional Hanzi: Chinese: Běijīng Yuánrén), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus.

A group of fossil specimens were discovered in 1923-1927 during excavation at Zhoukoudian (Chou K'ou-tien) near Beijing (then called Peking), China.

These findings have been dated to around 500 thousand years ago, although further studies proposed the age of 600 to 780 thousand years ago.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_us_Peking

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