Chou-k'ou-tien

English Etymology From en cmn 周口店, en cmn-wadegiles - romanization: Chou¹-kʻou³-tien⁴.Zhoukoudian, Wade-Giles romanization Chou-k’ou-tien, in Encyclopædia Britannicaen 1982 Selected Glossary The Cambridge Encyclopedia of China https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/ Cambridge University Press 0521230993 79-42627 781411242 476, 477 https://archive.org/details/cambridgeencyclo00hook/page/477/ The glossary includes a selection of names and terms from the text in the Wade-Giles transliteration, followed by Pinyin,Chou-k'ou-tien (Zhoukoudian) zh 周口店 Proper noun 1 1 en Zhoukoudian. en 1966 zh:鄭徳坤<t:Chêng Tê-k'un> Prehistoric China Archaeology in China https://archive.org/details/archaeologyinchi0001zhen/ 1 883261727 34 https://archive.org/details/archaeologyinchi0001zhen/page/34/ He also made use of natural caves, one of which has been found at Chou-k’ou-tien. In the Middle Pleistocene, Chou-k’ou-tien was spotted with caves in the limestone formation at various levels. en 1973 w:Kwang-chih Chang Chinese Archaeology An Introduction to Chinese Civilization John T. Meskill https://archive.org/details/introductiontoch0000unse_m2l7/ w:D. C. Heath and Company 0-669-73502-7 72-9410 623270 385 https://archive.org/details/introductiontoch0000unse_m2l7/page/385/ 2016 Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion Readings for Writers https://archive.org/details/readingsforwrite0000unse_v6m9/ Fifteenth w:Cengage 978-1-305-08786-6 2014940406 915773824 36 https://archive.org/details/readingsforwrite0000unse_v6m9/page/36/ The bony remains of Peking Man all came from a single limestone cave at Chou-k’ou-tien. The bones consist of fifteen crania, six facial bones, twelve mandibles, a miscellaneous collection of postcranial bones, and 147 teeth. en 1974 w:William Watson The Chinese Exhibition https://archive.org/details/chineseexhibitio00roya/ w:Times Newspapers 0-7230-0107-3 53654792 20026723M 43 https://archive.org/details/chineseexhibitio00roya/page/43/ The morphology of the bones suggests an evolutionary stage just prior to Sinanthropus pekinensis, and comparable to that of the Pithecanthropus robustus from East Java; but Lan-t'ien man's tools are little inferior to those of Peking Man. The latter is better known, being represented by complete skulls and long bones discovered in excavations at the limestone caves of Chou-k'ou-tien, forty kilometres south-west of Peking. en 1976 A C Waltham The World of Caves https://archive.org/details/worldofcaves0000walt/ London w:Orbis Publishing 0-85613-099-0 3328551 5209636M 46 https://archive.org/details/worldofcaves0000walt/page/46/ In the collapsed caves of Chou-k’ou-tien in eastern China a sequence of deposits 50 metres (160 feet) thick has been excavated. en Translations Zhoukoudian References Further reading Chou-k'ou-tien, Chou-kou-tien