Peking man facial reconstruction

Archived from the original on 27 September Other research on the species suggest Peking Man used fire and animal hides for warmth. Today, Eridu is often considered to be one of the oldest permanent settlements in Mesopotamia, and perhaps even in the world. Peking Man Homo erectus pekinensis , formerly known by the junior synonym Sinanthropus pekinensis is a group of fossil specimens of Homo erectus , dated from roughly , years ago, [1] [2] discovered in —37 during excavations at Zhoukoudian Chou K'ou-tien near Beijing at the time spelled Peking , China. Excavations at the site under the supervision of Chinese archaeologists Yang Zhongjian , Pei Wenzhong , and Jia Lanpo uncovered human fossils including six nearly complete skullcaps from more than 40 individual specimens. They lived between , and , years ago.