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Nihewan Fossils' Origin
Xiaochangliang () is the site of some of the earliest paleolithic remains in East Asia, located in the Nihewan (泥河灣) Basin in Yangyuan County, Hebei, China, most famous for the stone tools discovered there. Stone tools The tool forms discovered include Scraper (archaeology), side and end scrapers, notches, Burin (lithic flake), burins, and disc cores. Although it is generally more difficult to date Asian sites than African sites because Asian sites typically lack volcanic materials that can be dated isotropically, the age of the tools has been stratigraphy, magnetostratigraphically dated as 1.36 million years. This method hinges upon dated Geomagnetic reversal, reversals in the Earth's magnetic field. Research The site was first discovered by the Scottish geologist George Brown Barbour, George Barbour in 1923. He was amazed when he saw the ancient sediments from the lake. Although he guessed wrong about how old they were and found basically nothing, Barbour invited Pere Lic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebei
Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, and 0.3% Mongol. Three Mandarin dialects are spoken: Jilu Mandarin, Beijing Mandarin and Jin. Hebei borders the provinces of Shanxi to the west, Henan to the south, Shandong to the southeast, Liaoning to the northeast, and the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region to the north. Its economy is based on agriculture and manufacturing. The province is China's premier steel producer, although the steel industry creates serious air pollution. Five UNESCO World Heritage Sites can be found in the province, the: Great Wall of China, Chengde Mountain Resort, Grand Canal, Eastern Qing tombs, and Western Qing tombs. It is also home to five National Famous Historical and Cultural Cities: Handan, Baoding, Chengde, Zhengding and Shanhaiguan. Historic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Brown Barbour
George Brown Barbour FGS FRSE FRSSA (1890–1977) was an internationally renowned Scottish geologist and educator. Life He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, 22 August 1890. He was the son of the eminent gynaecologist, Alexander Hugh Freeland Barbour and Margaret Nelson Brown. From 1899 he attended Merchiston Castle School in the south of Edinburgh. In 1906 he left the school to attend Marburg University in Germany for one year. He received an Honours degree of Master of Arts in Classics from the University of Edinburgh in 1910. In 1912 he was accepted to study for a Master of Arts in science from Cambridge University, but his studies were interrupted by the war. During the First World War he joined the Friends Ambulance Unit at Dunkirk before joining the British Ambulance Unit in Italy but eventually enlisted, probably in 1916. He graduated from Cambridge in 1918. In 1919 he travelled to America to attend Columbia University in New York. Here he met Dorothy Dickinson, whom h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
