Xiangfen

See also: xiāngfěn

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Etymology

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 襄汾.

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Xiangfen

  1. A county of Linfen, Shanxi, China.
    • [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, Washington, D.C.: American Association of the Advancement of Science, LCCN 61-14965, OCLC 312684259, page 134:
      Tingtsun Man. This was discovered in November 1954 in Tingtsun Village, Hsiangfen County, Shansi Province in north-central China.]
    • [1975, Chia, Lan-po, The Cave Home of Peking Man‎, Peking: Foreign Languages Press, OCLC 966103764, 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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