Harry L. Shapiro

Harry Lionel Shapiro ( born March 19, 1902 in Boston; † 7 January 1990) was an American anthropologist. Among others, he wrote a work on the " Peking Man ", a discovery of Homo erectus bones in China by 1920.

His parents were Polish Jews who emigrated to the United States.

Writings

• Man, culture, and society. Oxford University Press, New York, NY 1956.
• Peking Man. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1974. The secret of Peking Man. Umschau Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1976, ISBN 3-524-00687-6.

Essays

• Crania from Pommern in Carinthia ( = Contributions to the craniology of Central Europe 1 = Anthropological papers of the American Museum of Natural History. Vol 31, No. 1, ISSN 0065-9452 ) eLibrary Austria, eLib full text.