Peking man
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Archaeological exploration in China
Collection
Identifier: Film Collection no. 7
Scope and Contents
Davidson Black, professor of anatomy at the Peking Union Medical College, conducted the first systematic excavations at Choukoutien, China, where the fossil remains of Peking Man had been discovered in 1926. This film illustrates the painstaking excavation activities, such as panning, scraping, digging, and brushing, carried on at Choukoutien under the direction of Black's successor, Franz Weidenreich, director of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory in Peking. Weidenreich compares a Peking Man...
Dates:
[between 1935 and 1941]
Search of Peking Man exhibition photographic slides, 1975-1976.
Collection
Identifier: PSC 81H
Abstract
Slides of the temporary exhibition In Search of Peking Man, held at the American Museum of Natural History, 1975. Several views of the display case.
Dates:
1975-1976
American Museum of Natural History
Museum Archives at the Gottesman Research Library
200 Central Park West
New York, NY 10024-5192