Tingtsun

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A form of Dingcun — A village in Xiangfen, Linfen, Shanxi, China.

OriginMandarin 丁村 →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Dingcun.

    Tingtsun Man. This was discovered in November 1954 in Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province in north-central China.

    1961, Sidney H. Gould, editor, Sciences in Communist China: A Symposium Presented at the New York Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, December 26-27, 1960, Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134
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    Palaeolithic implements have been recovered from 1953 in the Ordos and in Shansi. The most important site is Tingtsun in Hsiangfen county of the latter province. Here were found an abundant fossil fauna, three hominid teeth and over two thousand artefacts of a type more advanced than those of Pithecanthropus pekinensis.

    1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry, London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134

    Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection.

    1963 January 18, Hsia Nai, “Archaeology in New China”, in Peking Review, volume VI, number 3, →OCLC, page 13, column 1

    Most significant of all was the discovery of "Tingtsun Man” in 1954, at Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province. The site yielded three juvenile teeth along with great numbers of stone tools and fossil vertebrates.

    1975, Lan-po Chia, The Cave Home of Peking Man, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48

Origin

  1. Mandarin丁村
  2. EnglishTingtsun

From Mandarin 丁村, Wade–Giles romanization: Ting¹-tsʻun¹.

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