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A Master of Science HistoryPeking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery

A Master of Science History: Peking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery [In 1921 the first tooth of the so called Peking Man was found in China. This caused sensation over the world, since Peking Man was regarded as the oldest human being found. The discovery was attributed to the leader of the Swedish expedition, the geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson, or to Dr Davidson Black, the Canadian director of the Peking Medical College. In fact the discovery was made by the young Austrian-Swedish palaeontologist Otto Zdansky, at the moment employed by the department of palaeontology in Uppsala, Sweden. Most of all Western handbooks have followed the line of Andersson-Black. Through new findings in private archives and a more careful search in letters and diaries it can now been stated that Zdansky was the real discoverer. Hundreds of boxes with material from the digging was sent to Uppsala, since there were not expertice competent enough to be found in China. All the findings kept in the Medical College in Peking disappeared during the Second World War. Left were only the three teeth kept in Uppsala. In the Spring of 2011 one box still not opened was finally opened and a fourth tooth was found.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Master of Science HistoryPeking Man: New Light on an Old Discovery

Part of the Archimedes Book Series (volume 30)
Editors: Buchwald, Jed Z.
Frängsmyr, Tore
A Master of Science History — Dec 8, 2011
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Springer Netherlands
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© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
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978-94-007-2626-0
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49 –62
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10.1007/978-94-007-2627-7_5
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Abstract

[In 1921 the first tooth of the so called Peking Man was found in China. This caused sensation over the world, since Peking Man was regarded as the oldest human being found. The discovery was attributed to the leader of the Swedish expedition, the geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson, or to Dr Davidson Black, the Canadian director of the Peking Medical College. In fact the discovery was made by the young Austrian-Swedish palaeontologist Otto Zdansky, at the moment employed by the department of palaeontology in Uppsala, Sweden. Most of all Western handbooks have followed the line of Andersson-Black. Through new findings in private archives and a more careful search in letters and diaries it can now been stated that Zdansky was the real discoverer. Hundreds of boxes with material from the digging was sent to Uppsala, since there were not expertice competent enough to be found in China. All the findings kept in the Medical College in Peking disappeared during the Second World War. Left were only the three teeth kept in Uppsala. In the Spring of 2011 one box still not opened was finally opened and a fourth tooth was found.]

Published: Dec 8, 2011

Keywords: Peking Union Medical College; Chinese Material; Gold Chain; Yangshao Culture; Hominid Species

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