Fangshan District
The earliest remains of hominid habitation in Beijing Municipality were found in the caves of Dragon Bone Hill near the village of Zhoukoudian in Fangshan District, where the "Homo erectus" Peking Man (previously classified as the now-invalid species "Sinanthropus pekinensis") lived from 770,000 to 230,000 years ago. Paleolithic "homo sapiens" also lived in the caves from about 27,000 to 10,000 years ago.