Holdings Information

Bibliographic Record Display

• Title:Dragon bones : the story of Peking Man / Penny van Oosterzee.
  
•    
• Author/Creator:Van Oosterzee, Penny.
  
• Published/Created:Cambridge, Mass. : Perseus Pub., ©2000.
  

• Holdings

  Holdings Record Display

  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GN284.7 .V352 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Black, Davidson, 1884-1934.
  Peking man.
  Excavations (Archaeology)--China--Chou-kʻou-tien--History.
  China--Antiquities.
  
• Medical Subjects:Paleontology--history--China.
  
• Description:v, 198 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm.
  
• Summary:"At the end of the nineteenth century in China amateur fossil hunters knew that a ready supply of fossils could be found in backstreet Chinese apothecaries. When the sources of these fossils were tracked down they revealed sites rich with the remains of horses, rhinoceroses, elephants ... and the ancestors of mankind." "Set against a background of squabbling Chinese warlords and the Japanese occupation, a team of Chinese and Europeans worked diligently in primitive and often dangerous conditions to uncover the origins of man. What they found was one of the most famous hominid fossils of all time - Peking Man." "Penny van Oosterzee has written a riveting historical account of the discovery of Peking Man, from the excavation of one small fossilised molar to the mysterious disappearance of the fossils at the beginning of the second World War."--Jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-189) and index.
  
• ISBN:0738202924
  
• Contents:Dragon Bones
  Into the Teeth of the Dragon
  Peking Man
  Missing in Action
  The Supporting Act
  Whatever Happened to Homo erectus?