. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Photos at lelt: cave at Choukoutien, near Peking, where first Peking Man fossils were found in 1926; reconstruction of Peking Man in museum at Ctioukoutien; taken in June 1972 by Willis Barnstone. Dr. Barnstone is Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University. His recent book The Poems of Mao Tse-tung was a Book-of-tfie-Montti Club alternate selection earlier this year. Photo below: some of long-lost Peking Man fossils?. The missing Pelting Man tossils are halt-a- million-year-old remains from about forty individuals ot a species ot man now class
. Bulletin. Natural history; Science. Photos at lelt: cave at Choukoutien, near Peking, where first Peking Man fossils were found in 1926; reconstruction of Peking Man in museum at Ctioukoutien; taken in June 1972 by Willis Barnstone. Dr. Barnstone is Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University. His recent book The Poems of Mao Tse-tung was a Book-of-tfie-Montti Club alternate selection earlier this year. Photo below: some of long-lost Peking Man fossils?. The missing Pelting Man tossils are halt-a- million-year-old remains from about forty individuals ot a species ot man now classified as Homo erectus lliat were excavated from a cave near Peking beginning in 1926. In 1941 ttiey were removed from the Peking Union Medical College for safekeeping, and went underground again December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor. They have been lost to the scientific world ever since. The whole story—as much as is known— was told by Dr. Harry Shapiro, Curator Emeritus of Physicaf Anthropology at the American Museum of Naturaf History, in the November 1971 issue of Natural History. Apparentfy Marines who were interned as prisoners of war by the Japanese kept at feast some of the fossils hidden from their captors for severaf years. Then those too disappeared. Last month—September 1 to be exact— the photo at left was brought to Field Museum and shown to Dr. Glen Cole, Associate Curator of Prehistory. He was asked, "Could these possibfy be some ot the fossifs of Peking Man?" Thus another chapter of the story may have started to unlofd. ft started this summer when five Americans on a cultural tour of China visited the Peking Man Museum at the site where the fossifs were first found. Its director told them how important recovery of the fossils would be to the Chinese. The experience inspired the poem "The Cave of the Peking Man" by one member of the group. It inspired the leader of the tour, Christopher G. Janus, to set in motion events whi
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