Meaning of Tsochen | Babel Free

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Noun. [B1]

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“I was in the field and had a lead to run down, and so for the next few days I stationed myself at the Redhill Hotel in Tainan and searched. I found more orangutans, clouded leopards, scarlet macaws and abundant domestic species being secretly traded and butchered, recording it all on hidden cameras. But no tiger slaughter. I found another farm just outside the town of Hsinhua and that led me to the village of Tsochen and then on a wild-goose chase across the county to a place called Chiali. Some new American friends from Tainan who invariably came along with me to translate began to think I was completely nuts.”

“Human fossils were found in caves near Changpin in southeast Taiwan and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southwest coast of the island in the 1960s.”

“In the 1960s human remains, pottery, and stone tools were found in caves in southern Taiwan at Changpin in the far southeast and at Tsochen near Tainan on the southern west coast.”

“A mudslide buried alive a 65-year-old woman at a mountainous village in Tsochen in the southern county of Tainan earlier yesterday, while a man in the southern county of Pingtung was electrocuted, police said.”

“Visitors to NTM also can see the fossilized remains, including large fossilized skeletons, of various species of animals and plants, as well as mineral samples. Among other significant relics are fragments of human skulls unearthed in the early 1970s in Tainan County's Tsochen (Zuojhen) Township.”

“In the town of Yujing our route connects with Provincial Highway 20, which you can continue on to reach Tainan city. However, when you pass through Tsochen (左鎭; Zuǒzhèn), it’s worth heading out to Mt Tsao Moon World (草山月世界; Cǎoshān Yuè Shìjiè), a grimly picturesque landscape of barren eroded cliffs and pointy crags.”

“For many years, that collector had been searching for fossils around the river bed of the Tsailiao, which flows through Tsochen city in the Tainan district.”

“During 1971-1972, several Taiwanese scholars and a Japanese biologist discovered human remains, including three cranial fragments and a tooth, in Tsochen (Zuozhen), Tainan County.”

“Tsailiao is a small village in the Tsochen District of Tainan City, Taiwan (Fig. 1). Tsailiao and its surroundings are well known among researchers who study the Quaternary geology and paleontology of Taiwan because they have yielded abundant and diverse mammalian fossils of Pleistocene age.”

“Paleontology research in Taiwan can be traced back to the 1930s during the Japanese period, when Taihoku Imperial University (today’s NTU) professor Ichiro Hayasaka dug up a rhinoceros fossil from 100,000 years ago in the Tsochen area of Tainan, later dubbed the “Hayasaka Rhino.””

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