Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Dingcun.
A prehistoric site of late Pleistocene age, which was especially prepared for our visit, was seen at Ting-ts'un, above the Fen River (Shansi).
1977, F. Clark Howell, “Introduction”, in Paleoanthropology in the People's Republic of China, Washington, D.C.: National Academy of Sciences, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32 more examples
Ting-ts'un Man, who lived in the watersheds in southern Shansi, continued to use pebble and flake chopping-tools, crude flakes being obtained mainly from large hornfels pebbles.
1977, William Jerald Kennedy, Adventures in Anthropology, West Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 274The famous Palaeolithic site of Dingcun (Ting-ts'un) in North China is located on the third terrace of the Fenhe River, which is one of the main tributaries of the Yellow River.
2014, Shi-Xia Yang with Weiwen Huang, Ya-Mei Hou, and Bao-Yin Yuan, “Is the Dingcun lithic assembly a “chopper-chopping tool industry”, or “Late Acheulian”?”, in Quaternary International, volume 321, page 3 of 3–11
Origin
- Mandarin丁村
- EnglishTing-ts'un
From Mandarin 丁村, Wade–Giles romanization: Ting¹-tsʻun¹.
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