Hsiangfen

English

Etymology

From Mandarin 襄汾, Wade–Giles romanization: Hsiang¹-fên².

Proper noun

Hsiangfen

1. Alternative form of Xiangfen
   • 1960, Alan Houghton Brodrick, “The Pithecanthropoids”, in Man and His Ancestry‎^[1], London: The Scientific Book Club, →OCLC, page 134:

     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.

   • 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^[2], Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 134:

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

   • 1966 March, Rewi Alley, “Ancient Sites around Houma in Southern Shansi”, in Eastern Horizon‎^[3], volume V, number 3, Hong Kong: Eastern Horizon Press, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 44, column 2:

     Out from Houma across the hills is Hsiangfen county, which has as one of its villages the Ting Tsun, where in these last few years an archzological team from the Academy of Sciences in Peking has carried out exploration and has uncovered three human teeth in a gravel seam estimated to be of a period 200,000 years ago.

   • 1975, Lan-po Chia, The Cave Home of Peking Man‎^[4], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 48:

     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.

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