Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave) 南京古猿人洞Nánjīng Gǔyuánrén Dòng

About Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave)

Hulu (Gourd) Cave on the northern slope of Tangshan, a limestone cave where workers found two fossil human skulls and many mammal fossils in 1993; the skulls belong to Homo erectus and are known as Nanjing Man. The cave is now the centre of a fossil-site park of about 75 hectares, where a time tunnel leads from the cave to a site museum, opened in 2014, that traces the area's geology and human evolution and displays the two skulls. The female skull has been dated to roughly 600,000 years ago and the male one to about 300,000 years ago.

How to get to Nanjing Man Site (Tangshan Ape-Man Cave)

In Tangshan, about 25 km east of central Nanjing and close to the Yangshan Quarry and the Tangshan hot-spring resorts, about 40 minutes by car.

Nearby

• Purple Mountain & Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum 南京钟山风景区 20 km
  A forested mountain on Nanjing's edge, crowned by a blue-roofed hilltop tomb
• Fuzimiao and the Qinhuai River 夫子庙—秦淮风光带 20 km
  Nanjing's lantern-lit Confucius Temple quarter, beside painted boats on the Qinhuai
• City Wall of Nanjing 南京城墙 30 km
  The Ming capital's brick ramparts, anchored by the vast fortress of Zhonghua Gate
• Slender West Lake 瘦西湖 50 km
  A ribbon of willow-fringed water lined with the pavilions of Qing salt merchants

Also within 20 km: Tangshan Zhiqing Lake Resort 汤山紫清湖 (under 10 km), Yangshan Quarry 阳山碑材 (under 10 km), Mount Baohua and Longchang Temple 宝华山隆昌寺 (under 10 km), Happy Valley Nanjing 南京欢乐谷 (10 km), Qixia Mountain & Qixia Temple 栖霞山·栖霞寺 (10 km), Southern Dynasty Tomb Sculptures, Nanjing 南京南朝陵墓石刻 (20 km).

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Learn more

• Wikipedia (Chinese)
• Wikipedia: Nanjing Man