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- melvin.php accessdate "2008-04-20".
- melvin.php date "2005-10-11".
- melvin.php first "Sheila".
- melvin.php isCitedBy Cenozoic_Research_Laboratory.
- melvin.php isCitedBy Zhoukoudian.
- melvin.php last "Melvin".
- melvin.php publisher International_Herald_Tribune.
- melvin.php quote "Although there was some discussion of moving the bones after the Japanese invasion in 1937, they were apparently assumed to be safe because they were housed in the American-run Peking Union Medical Hospital, which oversaw the Cenozoic Research Lab.".
- melvin.php quote "Black died at his office desk in the middle of the night with a skullcap of Peking Man beside him.".
- melvin.php quote "Franz Weidenreich, a German who led the Cenozoic Lab after Black's death, insisted that copies of all the Peking Man bones be made in the summer of 1941 because he feared that Japanese would take over the lab if war broke out with the United States. But it was not until the late autumn of 1941 that the bones were crated and sent to the American controller of Peking Union Medical College for shipment to the United States - and vanished forever.".
- melvin.php quote "The scientists who worked on the excavation rode to the site on mules and stayed in an old caravansary. The first skullcap was dug out by Pei Wenzhong working in a 40-meter crevasse in frigid weather with a hammer in one hand and a candle in the other.".
- melvin.php quote "Three Chinese workers at the site were tortured and then bayoneted to death by Japanese soldiers, and one worker was forced to drive a rickshaw and died of starvation.".
- melvin.php title "Archaeology: Peking Man, still missing and missed".
- melvin.php url melvin.php.