Peking man

American  

noun

1. the skeletal remains of Homo erectus, formerly classified as Sinanthropus pekinensis, found at Zhoukoudian, near Peking, China (now Beijing), in the late 1930s and early 1940s and subsequently lost during World War II.

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Peking man British  

noun

1. an early type of man, Homo erectus, remains of which, of the Lower Palaeolithic age, were found in a cave near Peking (now Beijing), China, in 1927

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Peking man Scientific  

/ pē′kĭng′ /

1. See sinanthropus

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Example Sentences

The animal was named to honor Davidson Black, the Canadian scientist who studied the early human ancestor known as Peking man.

From New York Times • Jan. 10, 2024

A replica of the Peking man skull presented at the Paleozoological Museum of China in February 2009.

From Slate • Jan. 16, 2014

His father, George, was a Scottish geologist and Presbyterian who was involved in the discovery of the Peking man fossils.

From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2014

Known as Peking man, his remains show that people settled the river valley as much as 500,000 years ago.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012

His hero takes a skull and, with the aid of an ethnologist, builds a face around it, the way Peking man was constructed from shards of bone.

From Time Magazine Archive