FOLLOWING the recovery of several fragments A of a very small adult skull of Sinanthropus from Locus I (Locality 1) in the latter part of our spring field season at Choukoutien, we had the good ...

The two most ancient fossil humans known are Sinanthropus pekinensis, the old man of China, and Pithecanthropus erectus, the ape man of Java. Their ages have been variously put at 400,000 to ...

Scientific work at the site, which lies 42 km south-west of Beijing, is still underway. So far, it has led to the discovery of the remains of Sinanthropus pekinensis, who lived in the Middle ...

The Chinese Communists have already accused the U.S. of abducting one of the world’s two oldest relics of human existence : Peking man (Sinanthropus pekinensis}, whose 250,000-year-old remains ...

It was in 1927 that the late Dr. Davidson Black boldly, on the evidence of a tooth, differentiated a new genus of man, Sinanthropus pekinensis. His temerity was fully justified two years later ...