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Pleis·to·cene
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zhoukoudian
the site of fossil-bearing caves near Peking, China, dating from the middle Pleistocene, in one of which were found the physical remains of Peking man together with stone tools and evidence of fire use. -
-cene
denoting a recent geological period -
abbevillian
the period represented by Lower Palaeolithic European sites containing the earliest hand axes, dating from the Mindel glaciation -
acheulean
designating or of a Lower Paleolithic culture characterized by skillfully made bifacial flint hand axes -
agassiz
Jean Louis Rodolphe (ʒɑ̃ lwi rɔdɔlf). 1807–73, Swiss natural historian and geologist, settled in the US after 1846 -
arago man
the skeletal remains of Homo erectus of the middle Pleistocene Epoch found in a cave in the French Pyrenees.