Professor Shen, Visiting Scholar
with assitance from Gao Bin, Visiting Scholar
U-series Dating Lab at the College of Geographical Sciences, Director
Nanjing Normal University, China
Prof. Shen has been working on important Late Pleistocene sites for addressing the origin of modern Homo sapiens in China, and on Middle Pleistocene sites for addressing the destination of eastern Asian Homo erectus. Since 2003, he has been interested in introducing 26Al/10Be burial dating to Chinese Early-Middle Pleistocene hominid sites. He visited Purdue University, to apply the newly established method of 26Al/10Be burial dating to the hominid occupation and sediment deposition of Zhoukoudian, Locality 1, the site of world-renowned Peking Man, represents a continuation of his previous research programs. |
