#PEKING MAN

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Art of Giovanni Caselli

Australopithecus robustus

Homo erectus pekinensis or "Peking Man."

Neanderthals, like today's Inuit, adapted well to a frozen climate.

Lake Mungo is the site of the earliest known human settlement in Australia.

Dolni Volstenice, an Eastern Gravettian settlement.

Lapenski Vir, a Mesolithic settlement on the Danube.

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Cuts on the skull show they were after its tongue and brain, both rich in fats.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

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2020: Xi Jinping to Politburo Collective Study Session on Chinese Archaeology

China  Books Review November 30, 2023 article The Bones Remember by Yangyang Cheng pointed out that Xi Jinping in a talk to the Chinese Communist Party Politburo Collective Study Session doubled down on the depth of China’s ancient past. Xi Jinping said “China ranks together with Africa as the locales for the earliest origin of humanity.  我国是东方人类的故乡，同非洲并列人类起源最早之地.” That may be a bit over the…

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Although Hong Kong is one of the world's most densely populated cities, Mighty Peking Man is puzzled by the lack of people and automobiles on the streets.

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She's My Screen Age Jungle Queen

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Evelyne Kraft in Mighty Peking Man.

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While there's unfortunately no English subtitles, you can watch a Peking opera version of Havoc in Heaven free on youtube here:

Between the acrobatics, incredible costumes and makeup, and clear fun that the actors are having in their roles, it's definitely worth a watch!

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Xing xing wang (1977) Japanese Poster

AKA The Mighty Peking Man

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The Mighty Peking Man | 1977

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Homo erectus pekinensis by Eric Chung.

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By 600,000 years ago, when Heidelberg Man came onto the scene and Peking Man ruled the roost at Zhoukoudian, there were definitely different species of Homo in the Eastern and Western parts of the Old World: in the East the small-brained Homo erectus and in the West the larger-brained Homo antecessor and Heidelberg Man.*

*And, of course, an unknown number of hominin species like the Flores hobbits that died out without leaving modern descendants. Another new species was identified in the mountains of central Asia in 2010, and was predictably labeled "the yeti."

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

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These show that by 600,000 years ago, Peking Man* (as the excavators dubbed the Zhoukoudian ape-men) had diverged from tall, lanky Africans like the Turkana Boy toward a stockier form, better suited to cold.

*Although we now normally transliterate the name of the Chinese capital as Beijing, by convention paleoanthropologists still speak of Peking Man.

"Why the West Rules – For Now: The patterns of history and what they reveal about the future" - Ian Morris

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The Mighty Peking Man (1977) doing his bit for urban renewal in Hong Kong.

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They Were The Peking King

And The New York Queen

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