Andersson, Johan Gunnar

Kineser och pingviner. En naturforskares minnen från jordens fyra hörn.

Stockholm, Saxon & Lindströms förlag, 1933. 464 pp. Richly illustrated. Half cloth, pictorial wrappers bound in. Inscribed by the author “Herr Ingeniör O. Karlbeck från gamle vännen förf.”. Pp. 369–446 deal with the author’s experiences in China 1914–26. Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960), a Swedish geologist, initiated the study of prehistoric archaeology in China. In 1920, while working for the Chinese Geological Survey, he discovered fossils of homo erectus at the cave of Zhou-koudian (Chou-k’ou-t’ien), southwest of Beijing. He also identified several Neolithic sites in northern China. In 1923 he made excavations at the Yangshao site in Henan Province, for which the Neolithic culture in that region was named. However, later scholarship proved wrong many of his conclusions about dates and Western origins for the neolithic cultures.

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