Message from Clay Dube

[clay dube]

Zhoukoudian is the place outside Beijing where "Peking Man" was discovered 80 years ago. Recently additional excavations were undertaken. The cave, however, is now in danger of collapse:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/25/content_8321603.htm

Do your students find discussion of how such discoveries are made interesting? Does it help breath life into the subject to say something about how we know whatever it is that we know?