In 1929, a Zhoukoudian cave dig revealed a skullcap, and Peking Man transformed human origins research |
Peking Man is a subspecies of H. erectus which inhabited what is now northern China during the Middle Pleistocene. Image Credit: Wikipedia In December 1929, 25-year-old Chinese archaeologist Pei Wenzhong was working in a cold cave at Zhoukoudian near Beijing. As he brushed away layers of dirt, he uncovered an ancient human skullcap. The discovery…