Who does the Beijinger live in?
From the time point of view, it can almost be ruled out that Peking man's skull fossils were lost on the way to the United States. Because Harry
On the way from Manila to Qinhuangdao, the Pacific War broke out and the ship hit the rocks and sank outside the Yangtze River estuary. Of course, it is impossible to transport fossils as far away as Qinhuangdao or Tianjin. But it does not rule out the possibility of hiding in the middle. In 1980s, American paleoanthropologist Shapiro published a book "Beijingers", which he thought was changed in the basement of Tianjin.
There are also many people who think that "Beijingers" are in the United States. 1972, US President Nixon visited China. In order to break the ice of long-term hostility between China and America, Nixon tried to find a "Beijinger" as a gift for China, but failed. Janas, who accompanied Nixon to China, offered a reward of $5,000 to find "Beijingers" and got many clues, but none of them were the specimens he was looking for. A lady said that she was hiding "Beijingers" and made an appointment to meet Janus on the floor of Empire State Building 102. Both sides arrived as scheduled. When the lady took out the photo, Janus's eyes lit up and he thought it was great, which is exactly what he wanted to see! Then bargaining, talking and seeing someone taking pictures, the lady flew away with her bag, but Janus couldn't catch up. 1On March 8th, 993, Brown, an officer and historian of a certain US Navy, thought that the skull fossils of "Beijingers" might be in new york, and published a message on the New York Post, offering a reward of 2? 50,000 dollars to find "Peking man" skull fossils.
Are Peking man fossils in Japan? If the fossils and the US Marine Corps do fall into Japanese hands in Qinhuangdao, then the possibility lies in Japan. How to understand Japanese wartime search? One explanation is to hide people's eyes and ears, and the other explanation is really not in Japan's hands. There is also a saying that two boxes containing Chinese apes were robbed twice by the Japanese in the warehouse in Qinhuangdao at that time. It is difficult to guarantee that these two wooden boxes were not destroyed by the Japanese in the war, but the Japanese side still does not know.
After the war, some people think that fossils are unlikely to be in Japan, such as Bowen and others. Li, a China scholar who has been studying the whereabouts of Beijingers for a long time and the president of Guangming Daily Press, believes that the possibility of fossils in Japan can be basically ruled out. The reason is: "Since the founding of New China, especially since the reform and opening up, China and Japan have exchanged views on the issue of skull disappearance, and Japan firmly denies being in Japan." "From the point of common sense, the reason why the skull of' Beijingers' is precious lies mainly in its important research value. It is meaningful to pay more attention to it. If it is in Japan, whether it is in the hands of the government or among the people, it should be announced. There is no hidden reason, and it doesn't make any sense to do so. " According to Li, Jia Lanpo, a famous anthropologist, once said that he did not believe that Peking man's skull was in Japan. The above analysis also makes sense. This is similar to Hutton's opposition to transporting Peking man fossils to the United States in 194 1. Cultural relics are the witness of human development and the common wealth of human beings. They should be protected and enjoy the research results, rather than taking them for themselves. However, it can't be done at all in reality. During the war, the Japanese plundered a large number of cultural relics from China. After the war, Japan did not cooperate and tried its best to prevent the looted goods from being returned to China. How to understand this? In the late 1980s, paleontologist Zhou Xingguo went to Tokyo to hold a "dinosaur exhibition". He wanted to know more about Beijingers and meet Dong Er Takai, but Dong Er Takai refused this request and sent a letter to Japan, in which he denied that the fossils had been to Japan and asserted that "they were shipped to the United States by sea". Zhou Xingguo believes that Japan is more likely than the United States. Japan was an aggressor country at that time and was very predatory. During World War II, the Japanese stole a Thoreau skull fossil found in Java, and it was not recovered until after the war. After all, it happened under the control of the Japanese.