RARE! Chinese Paleontologist Jia Lanpo Hand Signed Announcement

  
"Chinese Anthropology" Jia Lanpo Hand Signed Announcement. Considered a founder of Chinese. He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in Beijing. In 1929 and went on to work as a trainee at the. In April 1931 he joined the excavations at. Were discovered in 1921 and where he worked. With many of the most renowned figures in paleoanthropology of his era. Whom he replaced as the field director of. The Zhoukoudian excavations in 1935.

After the founding of the People's. Republic of China in 1949, he served in many academic positions as well as. Working in the field, but he is most closely associated with the Chinese.

Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. In Beijing where Jia played a pivotal role in opening up Chinese.

Paleoanthropological research to foreign scientists beginning in the late. Jia was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy.

His cremated remains are interred behind the museum at the. Zhoukoudian site alongside those of his colleagues.