Jia Lanpo
Jia Lanpo ( Chinese 賈蘭坡 / 贾兰坡 ; born November 25, 1908 in Yutian , Hebei Province , † July 8, 2001 in Beijing ) was an important Chinese paleoanthropologist who was in charge of the excavations of the Peking man in the 1930s was involved.
Jia was still a student in the excavation campaign (1929 to 1937) in Zhoukoudian near Beijing, where skeletal remains of about 45 specimens of Homo erectus , named after the place where they were found, were found, including skullcaps. At the beginning of it in 1929, he was temporarily a supervisor, in 1931 technical assistant of the Geological Survey of China ( 中国 地质 调查 局 , Zhōngguó Dìzhì Diàochájú ), under whose direction the excavation was, and in 1935 head of the excavations. According to the latest dating, the finds date from 300,000 to 780,000 years ago. As director of the excavations, Jia succeeded Pei Wenzhong , another well-known Chinese anthropologist, who went to Paris at the time to get an academic degree. Well-known foreign anthropologists such as Davidson Black , Pierre Teilhard de Chardin , Franz Weidenreich and Henri Breuil were involved in the excavation, as well as the nestor of vertebrate paleontology in China, Yang Zhongjian .
The fossils were evacuated before the Japanese invasion in 1941 and were supposed to be brought to the USA on a ship, but disappeared on the way; their whereabouts are unknown; Jia tried to find out her fate in vain. Jia had precisely documented the excavation with 2000 photos and casts of the fossils. A few pieces also survived the war.
Jia was later a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences . He oversaw other excavations of the Pleistocene of China, including in 1990 in the Nihewan Basin in northern China with the American archaeologist John Desmond Clark .
In 1994 he became an external member of the National Academy of Sciences .
Jia Lanpo has written over 180 scientific articles and 23 books.
He is buried next to Yang Zhongjian and Pei Wenzhong in Zhoukoudian.
Fonts
- with Huang Weiwen: The story of Peking man: from archeology to mystery , Oxford University Press 1990
- Chinese Homo erectus , 1950
- Early Man in China , 1980
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jia, Lanpo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese paleoanthropologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 25, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Yutian , Hebei Province |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 8, 2001 |
| Place of death | Beijing |