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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Jia Lanpo, also romanized Chia Lan-p'o (Chinese: 贾兰坡, November 25, 1908 in Yutian, Hebei Province – July 8, 2001 in Beijing), was a Chinese prehistorian and archaeologist. Professor Jia was one of the founders of Chinese anthropology.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. In April 1931 he joined the excavations at Zhoukoudian where fossils of so-called Peking Man 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. 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 Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology & Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing where Jia played a pivotal role in opening up Chinese paleoanthropological research to foreign scientists beginning in the late 1970s.Jia Lanpo was elected a Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1994.His cremated remains are interred behind the museum at the Zhoukoudian site alongside those of his colleagues, Pei Wenzhong and Yang Zhongjian."@en }

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