Top Ten Famous Ancient Remains in China(2)
Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian
Peking Man Site is located 48 kilometers southwest of Beijing, and the scientific exploration of the site of is still in progress. So far, Chinese scientists have known that they lived nearly in the Pleistocene era, and they also found a variety of daily objects as well as the new human remains that can be traced back to 18,000 BC to 11,000 years.
The Banpo Village remains are located in the east of Xi'an city. It is estimated that the village covered an area of 50,000 square meters. 5 excavations between 1953 and 1957 have unearthed about about 10,000 square meters. In 1958 the onsite Banpo Museum was opened. The site contains the ruins of more than 40 homes, 200 storage pots, a collection of pottery and tools, a pottery-making centre and more than 250 graves belonging to a matriarchal community of the Yangshao culture.
