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AT a meeting of the Geological Society of China, held on Dec. 2, 1927, announcement was made of the discovery of a lower molar hominid tooth in the cave deposit at Chou Kou Tien, near Peking. The new specimen was obtained close to the site from which the first hominid teeth from this locality were recovered and in the same stratum of the deposit (NATURE, Nov. 20, 1926, p. 733). This deposit, which at first was thought to be Upper Pliocene, is now known to be basal Lower Quaternary in age (very early Pleistocene). The find was made on Oct. 16 by Dr. Birger Bohlin, palæontologist attached to the Geological Survey of China. Mr. C. Li, geologist from the Survey, and Dr. Bohlin have been in charge of the extensive excavations on this important site, which have been carried on during the past season by the Geological Survey in co-operation with the Department of Anatomy of the Peking Union Medical College.
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BLACK, D. Further Hominid Remains of Lower Quaternary Age from the Chou Kou Tien Deposit. Nature 120, 954 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/120954b0
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