Xihoudu
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Xihoudu () is an archeological site located in the Shanxi Province of China. The site has been dated to 2.43 million years ago, i.e. the Paleolithic Age. In total 32 stone implements were found at the site.
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It sits within the topics Major National Historical and Cultural Sites in Shanxi and Paleolithic sites in China.
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- Country
- China
- Located in
- Ruicheng County
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- Xihoudu
- heritage designation
- Major Historical and Cultural Site Protected at the National Level
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- Archaeological Site
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Xihoudu () is an archeological site located in the Shanxi Province of China. The site has been dated to 2.43 million years ago, i.e. the Paleolithic Age. In total 32 stone implements were found at the site.
==Discovery== In 1929, Chinese prehistoric archaeologist and paleontologist Professor Pei Wenzhong discovered the skull fossil of the "Peking Man" 500,000 years ago at the Zhoukoudian site in Beijing. However, the Paleolithic archaeologist Wang Jian(王建) inferred that there must have been more primitive humans before the "Peking Man". This inference was affirmed by the paleoanthropologist Professor Jia Lanpo(贾兰坡). In order to prove their theoretical inference, Jia Lanpo, Wang Jian and others analyzed from the aspects of paleogeography and paleoclimate, and began to search for human remains in the Nihewan stratum.
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