Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo Erectus

by Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon

Book Overview

"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in China, scientists Noel T. Boaz and Russell L. Ciochon retell the story of the cave's unique species of early human, Homo erectus.
Boaz and Ciochon take readers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195152913
• ISBN13: 9780195152913
• Release Date: February 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Reads like a mystery novel

This overview of old history regarding the worlds' most extensive fossil hominid site is great. The sequence of discovery, the loss of the fossils in WWII confusion, and the telling of the modern rethinking of the site and its significance is really very well done.