World Heritage in China
Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian
Updated: Jun 27, 2018
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Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, located 50 km southwest of Beijing, is where Peking Man lived about half a million years ago.
Ape Man Cave is among the most famous places of Zhoukoudian. It was a limestone cave and came to be filled with Peking Man’s remains and relics, as well as stones and sands.
The thick deposit consists of 13 layers, about 140 meters long from east to west, 2 to 40 meters wide and about 40 meters deep.
It has now become a fossil treasury for studies in fields like paleoanthropology, archeology, paleobiology, stratigraphy and environmentology.
It was listed among sites to be protected for historical and cultural value at the national level by the State Council in 1961 and was listed as a cultural heritage site by UNESCO in 1987.
Address: No 1, Zhoukoudian St., Fangshan district, Beijing
