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Report from Former U.S. Marine Hints at Whereabouts of Long-Lost Peking Man Fossils

Replica of one of the Peking Man fossils. Image: Yan Li, via Wikimedia Commons In the 1930s archaeologists working at the site of Zhoukoudian near Beijing recovered an incredible trove of partial skulls and other bones representing some 40 individuals that would eventually be assigned to the early human species Homo erectus . The bones, which recent estimates put at around 770,000 years old , constitute the largest collection of H

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