Olsen, John W.

Contributed to

Aspects of the Inner Mongolian Palaeolithic
essay 1985

Summary: John W. Olsen is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia. Olsen is Regents Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is also a Leading Scientific Researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences' Siberian Branch in Novosibirsk and Guest Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) in Beijing where he is also Co-Director of the Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center. Olsen has been named a Distinguished Researcher of the Nihewan Research Center in Hebei Province, China. He is also a Foreign Expert affiliated with The Yak Museum in Lhasa, Tibet. Wikipedia
Gender or Sex: Male [1][4]; Unknown [2]
Born: 1955 [4]
Birth Place: Concord, Mass. [2]
Country: United States [2]
Language: English [3]
Occupation: explorer [4]; anthropologist [4]; archaeologist [4]; university teacher [4]; scientist [4]
Employer: University of Arizona [4]
Educated at: Florida State University [4]; University of California, Berkeley [4]; University of Arizona [4]; Florida State University School [4]
Country of Education: United States [4]

Sources: 1. VIAF; 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France; 4. Wikidata

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