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Where in the world
China
Zhoukoudian
Palaeolithic · China
Field notes
- civilizations
- Palaeolithic
- types
- Dwelling · Cave painting
- occupied
- 700,000 BCE — 200,000 BCE
- country
- China
The site
Zhoukoudian, in the Fangshan District southwest of Beijing, is a Palaeolithic cave site whose deposits record human presence across an immense span, roughly 700,000 to 200,000 years ago. As a place of ancient dwelling within the limestone caves, it preserves one of the deepest archives of early human life in East Asia. For the explorer it is a landscape where the story of a single hillside reaches back hundreds of thousands of years.
