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Pei Wenzhong was born on 19 January, 1904 in Fengnan, Hebei, Qing Dynasty, is a Chinese paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist. Discover Pei Wenzhong's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 78 years old?

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Occupation Field researcher, professor
Age 78 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 19 January, 1904
Birthday 19 January
Birthplace Fengnan, Hebei, Qing Dynasty
Date of death 18 September, 1982
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1904

Pei Wenzhong (January 19, 1904 – September 18, 1982), or W. C. Pei, was a Chinese paleontologist, archaeologist and anthropologist born in Fengnan.

He is considered a founding figure of Chinese anthropology.

1928

Pei graduated from Peking University in 1928 and went to work for the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China joining the excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, where he was named the field director of the excavations the following year.

The work at Zhoukoudian was carried out under difficult conditions: for example, the scientists had to ride there on mules, some 40 km southwest of the city of Beijing.

1929

The first fossil hominin skullcap was recovered by Pei "working in a 40-meter crevasse in frigid weather with a hammer in one hand and a candle in the other on December 2, 1929, at 16.00 hours (local).

1933

From 1933 to 1934, he supervised the excavation of the Upper Cave at Zhoukoudian and was director of the Zhoukoudian Office of the Cenozoic Research Laboratory of the Geological Survey of China.

Here he discovered and classified the small, extinct "Zhoukoudian wolf" (Canis Lupus variabilis).

1934

Pei, W.C. (1934).

The carnivora from locality 1 of Choukoutien.

Palaeontologia Sinica, Geological Survey of China, Beijing

PEI, W. C. (1934), REPORT ON THE EXCAVATION OF THE LOCALITY 13 IN CHOUKOUTIEN.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 13: 359–368.

doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.1934.mp13001021.x PEI, W. C. (1934), A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE LATE-PALÆOLITHIC CAVE OF CHOUKOUTIEN.

Bulletin of the Geological Society of China, 13: 327–358.

doi: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.1934.mp13001020.x

1935

He left the excavation in 1935 to pursue a doctoral degree at the University of Paris and was succeeded by Professor Jia Lanpo.

1937

He returned to the excavation in 1937, shortly before they ceased due to the Japanese invasion of north China.

After Zhoukoudian, Pei worked at many other archaeological sites, including Djalainor (Zhalainu'er) in eastern Inner Mongolia and in Gansu.

1955

In 1955 he was elected to membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, became the first Chairman of Chinese Association of Natural Science Museums, and the second director of Beijing Museum of Natural History.

1982

Until his death in 1982, he worked at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

He also wrote several books, including the first on Chinese prehistory written in Chinese.

His cremated remains are interred behind the museum at the Zhoukoudian site alongside those of his colleagues, Yang Zhongjian and Jia Lanpo.