Richard Stone
ZHOUKOUDIAN, CHINA—On a sweltering late June day, Zhang Xiaoling hunches under a makeshift canvas roof over one of Asia`s most famous Stone Age sites. It`s roasting in the shelter, but Zhang, a ...
Reinforcement has begun at the Peking Man site to prevent one of its walls from collapsing.
The protective excavation, which started Wednesday, focuses on the west section of the cave where the first Peking Ma...
The UNESCO world heritage site, the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, a Beijing suburb, is undergoing a clean up and excavation project. It is the first excavation in 72 years, and its main purpose is to improve the...
On June 24, a large-scale protective excavation was launched on the Peking man site at Zhoukoudian, which is famous for its human fossils discovered - the skull cap of the Peking man. This is the first large-scale...
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Are dinosaurs the real ancestors of birds? What was the evolution process like? Those questions are the most controversial topics in the field of evolutionary biology. Chinese Academy of Sciences` Institute of Ver...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 By Jeanna Bryner
Bird wings clearly share ancestry with dinosaur "hands" or forelimbs. A school kid can see it in the bones. But paleontologists have long struggled to explain the so-...
In Memory of Prof. Dr. Minchen Chow (Zhou Mingzhen)
JUNE 15-21, 2009, BEIJING, CHINA
ABSTRACTS AND GUIDEBOOK
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and PaleoanthropologyChinese Academy of Sciences, Beiji...
Title: When old sharks meet new technologyBy: Dr. John Maisey Curator and Axelrod Research Chair, Division of Paleontology, AMNHWhen: Friday, June 05, 2009, 10:00 AMWhere: The Confer...
International Symposium on Paleoanthropology in Commemoration of
the 80th Anniversary of the Discovery of the First Skull of Peking Man and
the First Conference on Quaternary Research of Asia
Beijing, ...