December: Chinese prehistorian Jia Lanpo appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China.
It is of particular interest due to its high concentration of Paleolithic art, and because it is found outside of caves, on rocks in plain sight: Jean Clottes, a prominent French prehistorian, had confirm that "is the biggest open air site of paleolithic art in Europe, if not in the world".
In 1851, at Clermont-le-Fort, he discovered the remains of Pleistocene fauna, along with the presence of lithic artifacts, findings that seemingly proved the co-existence of Pleistocene animals with humans, and in essence, confirmed ideas that were earlier proposed by prehistorian Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788-1868).
Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994), British prehistorian and archaeologist