Dingcun

Proper noun

Dingcun

1. A village in Xiangfen, Linfen, Shanxi, China.
   • The fossils of the Dingcun hominid were found in 1954 in the sandy gravel beds at Locality 54.100 near Dingcun Village, Xiangfen County, Shanxi.1985, Wu Rukang, Lin Shenglong, “Chinese Palaeoanthropology: Retrospect and Prospect”, in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People's Republic of China, Academic Press, →ISBN...
   • DINGCUN (111°25' E, 35°50' N)
   • In May of 1953 workers digging sand for construction found many mammalian fossils near Dingcun Village on the east bank of the Fenhe River, Shanxi Province (northern China). The fossils were reported to the Laboratory of Vertebrate Paleontology, Academia Sinica (now the Institute of Vertebrate...1995, Xinzhi Wu, Frank E. Poirier, “Archaic Homo sapiens”, in Human Evolution in China: A Metric Description of Fossils and a Review of the Sites, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages...