The most famous is the site of “Peking Man,” who lived between 500,000 and 200,000 years ago. In 1921, a group of Austrian and Chinese scholars discovered a fossilized tooth at Dragon Bone Hill in Zhoukoudian, a western suburb of Beijing. In 1929, Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982) supervised the excavation of the first complete skull of Peking Man, followed... See more