Dingcun

alternative Tingtsun · alternative Ting-ts'un

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, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 7

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   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 Paleontology and Paleoanthropology) by the Management Committee of Cultural Relics of Shanxi Province, and from September to November an IVPP field team surveyed and excavated the site. In 1954, they found three human teeth, many stone implements, and animal fossils near Dingcun Village.

   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 143–144

   In Dingcun village in central Shanxi are found a number of Ming and Qing dynasty siheyuan, which are elegant in proportions and simple in style and ornamentation and are precursor forms of those still found in Beijing and surrounding areas.

   2005, “In Search of the Elusive Chinese House”, in Ronald G. Knapp, Kai-yin Lo, editors, House, Home, Family: Living and Being Chinese, University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 48, 399