Chou-k'ou-tien
Definitions
Noun. [C2]
Examples
“He also made use⟳ of natural caves, one of which has been found at Chou-k’ou-tien. In the Middle Pleistocene, Chou-k’ou-tien was spotted with caves in the limestone formation at various levels.”
Chêng Tê-k'un
“The bony remains of Peking Man all came from a single limestone cave at Chou-k’ou-tien. The bones consist⟳ of fifteen crania, six facial bones, twelve mandibles, a miscellaneous collection of postcranial bones, and 147 teeth.”
“The morphology of the bones suggests an evolutionary stage⟳ just prior to Sinanthropus pekinensis, and comparable to that of the Pithecanthropus robustus from East Java; but Lan-t'ien man's tools are little inferior to those of Peking Man. The latter is better known, being represented by complete⟳ skulls and long bones discovered in excavations at the limestone caves of Chou-k'ou-tien, forty kilometres south-west of Peking.”
“In the collapsed caves of Chou-k’ou-tien in eastern China a sequence of deposits 50 metres (160 feet) thick has been excavated.”
CEFR level
C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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