Ever War: The Skulls of Chou Kou Tien, Part 1: The Fall

JohnQuincy ^ | 06/17/2012 | WizKid

[wizkid]

On December 2, 1929, deep within a Chinese cavern, four scientists slid into a narrow chasm and discovered the site where the fall of man began nearly half a million years ago, where the original sin was committed. The crime scene that they uncovered was so vile that the artifacts were made to disappear and the implications covered up. While deep in our psyches we still retain a memory of this horror, our elites work to erode the customs developed over eons to keep the terror at bay. This is the fascinating story of these artifacts, the forty skulls of Chou Kou Tien and the disastrous fate that awaits humanity.

[wizkid]

"And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;"-Genesis 3:17

[PLMerite]

bflr

[afraidfortherepublic]

What a depressing post! Interesting, but depressing.

[familyop]

Abstract: leftists like the author have a desire to eat brains and believe that eating brains will make them smarter.

[MrEdd]

Zombies have been seeking brains forever...

[JoeFromSidney]

I once knew a retired Marine who had been at that garrison. He described the crate of Peking Man bones that had been delivered there for shipment to the US. He knew the bones had arrived, but had no knowledge of what happened to them. According to him, they just disappeared.

One of life's little mysteries.

[STD]

I'm fascinated by both the subject matter; Peking man, lost treasure hunts, the early history of the 20th Century and the rise of fanatic pseudo-Samari in the militarist governments of Japan, China and the Soviet Union.

It's no wonder the stories the prevue of widespread fictional accounts, it's a marvelous story with many hooks to keep everyone guessing. Please ping me when you publish Part Two, I'm all ears.

[wizkid]

Thank you for your kind comments.

You can count on my ping when Part II has been completed.

It is nice to know that others share my fascination with this stuff.

The subject has haunted me since running across Colin Wilson’s History of Crime in a dusty old book store ages ago.

[STD]

The Lost Peking Man Skeletons

A curious episode in the history of Peking Man, and argues that scientists committed a colossal fraud by hiding the existence of ten skeletons.

The initial reports

In the middle of December 1929, some newspapers reported that ten skeletons had been discovered at the Peking Man site of Chou Kou Tien (now Zhoukoudian) in China.

According to the New York Times of Dec. 16, 1929,

“The discovery in a cave near Peking of the fossilized bones of ten men, who possibly lived 1,000,000 years ago, as reported by scientists representing the Rockefeller Foundation and the Geological Survey of China, is held here to excel in interest all previous findings of this kind.
Of paramount importance is the discovery of a perfect skull, now in the possession of Dr. Davidson Black, a Canadian paleontologist, which, it is asserted, bears characteristics showing that even at the beginning of the ice age there existed men with the power of thinking and who, unlike the “ape men,” walked erect.
From the fact that the ten skeletons lay huddled together in the cave, found in a field at Chou Outien [sic], thirty miles from Peking, the scientists hold that they led a community life.” (Anon. 1929a)

Further on, the NYT article refers to “ten skeletons unearthed simultaneously with an unbroken skull”, and says that “Nine of the skeletons were headless”.

The prominent journal Nature (Anon. 1929b) made similar but more modest claims, referring only to “the fossilized fragments of ten more examples of Sinanthropus”, and “remains of ten individuals”.

On December 28th 1929 [1], a conference was held at the offices of the Geological Survey of China. There were no skeletons, let alone ten of them. What was shown to the audience of scientists and journalists was a partial skull, consisting of most of the braincase but almost none of the face, that had been found at Zhoukoudian on December 2nd by W. C. Pei, the young Chinese scientist in charge of excavation at the site. Even this find was enough to make news around the world.