(1874-1960). Swedish geologist who worked in China in the second and third decades of this century. His most important excavations were on sites of the Yangshao Neolithic culture, including the type site and other sites of the same culture farther west in Kansu. He was also the first excavator in 1921-6 of the famous Palaeolithic cave site of Zhoukoudian (Choukoutien).
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