Except for small-scale diggings at the old sites at Choukoutien starting in 1949,² significant field work in Palaeolithic archaeology in North China was not resumed until May 1953, when a new locality was discovered near Ting Ts’un, in Hsiang-fen Hsien, in the Fen River valley of Southern Shansi.]
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.
Excavations made since China's liberation in 1949 have unearthed more human fossils and artifacts of palaeolithic times. The site at Tingtsun in Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province, is of particular interest in this connection.
[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 archæological 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.]
In 1954 P’ei directed the Tingts’un excavations at Hsiangfen, Shansi, where a new paleolithic assemblage, including three hominid teeth, was found. An analysis of the teeth revealed that Tingts’un Man was phylogenetically situated between Peking Man and Modern Man and was close to the Neanderthals, especially Ordos Man. A summary of the Tingts’un finds, by P’ei and others, appeared in 1958 under the title Shan-hsi Hsiang-fen hsien Ting-ts’un chiu-shih-ch’i shih-tai i-chih fa-chueh pao-kao [report on the excavations of the paleolithic site at Tingts’un in Hsiangfen hsien, Shansi].]
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.
