Dingcun

dìngcún English Alternative forms en Tingtsun Ting-ts'un Etymology From the en cmn-pinyin - romanization of the en cmn 丁村. Pronunciation dĭng′tso͝on′ en Ding cun Proper noun en village county/Xiangfen prefecture-level city/Linfen province/Shanxi c/China. en 1985 Wu Rukang; Lin Shenglong Chinese Palaeoanthropology: Retrospect and Prospect Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China https://archive.org/details/palaeoanthropolo0000unse/ w:Academic Press 0-12-601720-4 84-6359 10695223 7 https://archive.org/details/palaeoanthropolo0000unse/page/7/ The fossils of the Dingcun hominid were found in 1954 in the sandy gravel beds at Locality 54.100 near Dingcun Village, Xiangfen County, Shanxi. en 1995 Xinzhi Wu; Frank E. Poirier Archaic Homo sapiens Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites https://archive.org/details/HumanEvolutionInChinaAMetricDescriptionOfFossilsAndAReviewOfTheSites/ w:Oxford University Press 0-19-507432-7 94-41509 31435253 143–144 https://archive.org/details/HumanEvolutionInChinaAMetricDescriptionOfFossilsAndAReviewOfTheSites/page/n153/ DINGCUN (111°25' E, 35°50' N)In May of 1953 workers digging sand for construction found many mammalian fossils near Dingcun Village on the east bank of the Fenhe River, Shanxi Province (northern China). The fossils were reported to the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology, Academia Sinica (now the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology) by the Management Committee of Cultural Relics of Shanxi Province, and from September to November an IVPP field team surveyed and excavated the site. In 1954, they found three human teeth, many stone implements, and animal fossils near Dingcun Village. en 2005 In Search of the Elusive Chinese House Ronald G. Knapp; Kai-yin Lo House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese https://archive.org/details/househomefamilyl0000unse/ w:University of Hawaiʻi Press 0-8248-2953-0 2004025303 56904441 48, 399 https://archive.org/details/househomefamilyl0000unse/page/48/ In Dingcun village in central Shanxi are found a number of Ming and Qing dynasty siheyuan, which are elegant in proportions and simple in style and ornamentation and are precursor forms of those still found in Beijing and surrounding areas. Dingcun village zh 丁村, Shanxi en Translations village Chinese: Cantonese: yue 丁村 Mandarin: cmn 丁村 Japanese: ja