Education
He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in Beijing in 1929 and went on to work as a trainee at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China.
贾兰坡
anthropologist biologist paleontologist
He graduated from the Huiwen Academy in Beijing in 1929 and went on to work as a trainee at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China.
Professor Jia was one of the founders of Chinese anthropology. In April 1931 he joined the excavations at Zhoukoudian where fossils of so-called Peking Manitoba were discovered in 1921 and where he worked with many of the most renowned figures in paleoanthropology of his era, including Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Henri Breuil, Davidson Black, Franz Weidenreich and Pei Wenzhong whom he replaced as the field director of the Zhoukoudian excavations in 1935.
Chinese Academy of Sciences.