Workers working at the protective project of Zhoukoudian Peking Man's site recently discovered a several-meter-deep cave at Gezitang, from which hundreds of ancient animals fossils were excavated. Preliminary check by experts shows they are fossils of Elk of Ireland and Axis Deer that are contemporaneous with the Peking Man.

Elk of Ireland and Axis Deer lived in the period of middle Pleistocene, about 130,000 years ago. In the fossils excavated are three fossil teeth, several fossil antlers and a sharp ��bone tool��, whose identity will not be confirmed until further checks are conducted.

By People's Daily Online