Xiangfen

alternative Hsiangfen

1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.

   Three human teeth also came to light in 1954 at Locality 100 of Ting-ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, southern Shansi.

   [1976, Kwang-chih Chang, “Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Foundations”, in The Archaeology of Ancient China, Yale University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, pages 56–57

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   Except for small-scale diggings at the old sites at Choukoutien starting in 1949,² significant field work in Palaeolithic archaeology in North China was not resumed until May 1953, when a new locality was discovered near Ting Ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, in the Fen River valley of Southern Shansi.

   [1960 [1958 Winter], Kwang-chih Chang, “New Light on Early Man in China”, in Hallam L. Movius, Jr., Wilhelm G. Solheim II, editors, Asian Perspectives, volume II, number 2, Hong Kong University Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 41

   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

   The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi Province's Xiangfen County also injured 35 others and trapped an unknown number of people under the rubble, local officials said.[…] "There were survivors on the first day and on the second day, but from day three, it's very likely that anyone we find in the future will be dead already," said a woman named Dong who heads the public relations department of Xiangfen County.

   2008 September 10, “Rescue hopes fade after landslide in China kills dozens”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2023, Asia Pacific