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Fr. d'Incarville, a French Jesuit, noted that "petrified bones" were among the pharmacopeia sold by druggists in Beijing in 1751. However, he did not refer to these as dragon's bones. [13] Robert Swinhoe described the use of dragon's teeth in 1870: Shanghai is a great center for [fossil trade]; and the raw article can be procured here in quantity.
The Longgu Cave [2] (simplified Chinese: 龙骨洞; traditional Chinese: 龍骨洞), literally meaning "Dragon Bone Cave", [3] also known as Giant Ape Cave, [4] is a cave located in Longgu Slope, Jintang Village, Gaoping Town, Jianshi County, Enshi City, Hubei Province. [5] It is 120 meters long, 6 to 7 meters high and 2 to 15 meters wide.
Peking Man is known from 13 skull and cranial fragments, 15 mandibles (lower jawbone), 157 isolated and in situ teeth, an atlas (the first neck vertebra), a clavicle, 3 humeri (upper arm bones), potentially 2 iliac fragments (the hip), 7 femora, a tibia (shinbone), and a lunate bone (a wrist bone). [79]
Zhoukoudian Peking Man Site (周口店北京人遗址), also romanized as Choukoutien, is a cave system in suburban Fangshan District, Beijing.It has yielded many archaeological discoveries, including one of the first specimens of Homo erectus (Homo erectus pekinensis), dubbed Peking Man, and a fine assemblage of bones of the giant short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris.
For example, Chang Qu in 300 BC documents the discovery of "dragon bones" in Sichuan. [14] "Dragon bones" have been used both historically and in modern times in traditional Chinese medicine. Scientific examination of "dragon bones" from the 19th century to the present suggests they most commonly are remains of fossil Cenozoic mammals, such as ...
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The "Dragon Bone Slope" at Longgupo was discovered as a site containing fossils in 1984. From 1985 to 1988, it was excavated by a team of Chinese scientists, led by Huang Wanpo from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing and the Chongqing National Museum (Sichuan Province).
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