Harry Lionel Shapiro

Harry Lionel Shapiro (born March 19, 1902 in Boston , Massachusetts , † January 7, 1990 ) was an American anthropologist . Among other things, he wrote a work on the Peking man , a homo-erectus bone find in China around 1920. In 1949 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences , and in 1964 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His parents were Polish Jews who emigrated to the United States.

Fonts

• Man, culture, and society. Oxford University Press, New York NY 1956.
• Peking Man. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1974.
  • The Peking Man's Secret. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-524-00687-6 .
• The Jewish People. A Biological History (= The Race Question in Modern Science ). Greenwood Press, Westport CT 1976, ISBN 0-8371-8783-4 .

Essays

• Crania from Greifenberg in Carinthia (= Contributions to the craniology of Central Europe 1 = Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol. 31, No. 1, ISSN  0065-9452 ), page no longer available , search in web archives: eLibrary Austria, eLib full text .

Web links

• Short biography I
• Short biography II. Archived from the original on June 3, 2010 ; accessed on January 22, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eric Pace: Dr. Harry L. Shapiro, Anthropologist, Dies at 87 . ( nytimes.com [accessed June 13, 2018]).