【成才之路】高中英语人教版选修8课件：Unit 5.pptVIP

“Around 500,000 years ago, at the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian in Beijings suburban Fangshan district，which is about 50 km from the city of Beijing, there lived early human beings，” says a China history textbook. The textbook now has to be revised. New dating techniques suggest the remains of Peking Man—found in the 1920s—are over 200,000 years older than previously thought. Whats important about that date, about 770,000 years ago，is that this was an ice age on Earth. Over Earths long history, there have been a number of times when ice and snow covered a large part of its surface. S