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Peking Man skull. Homo erectus. Composite reconstruction from fragments, since lost. Mostly from the cave of Zhoukoudian, near Beijing.
Peking Man (now sometimes called Beijing Man), also called Sinanthropus pekinensis (currently Homo erectus pekinensis), is an example of Homo erectus. The remains were first discovered in 1923-27 during excavations at Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien) near Beijing (Peking), China. The finds have been dated from roughly 250,000-400,000 years ago[citation needed] in the Pleistocene.