Otto Zdansky

Otto A. Zdansky (* 1894, † 1988) was an Austrian paleontologist and paleoanthropologist. From 1921 he led the first excavations of the geological Administration of China in the Lower Cave of Zhoukoudian, where the end of the 1920s, several skulls were exposed 400000-500000 year-old fossils of the genus Homo.

As assistant Johan Gunnar Andersson of he discovered in 1921 in Zhoukoudian the first fossil teeth, which was filed later by him as belonging to Homo. In 1926, he discovered another tooth, both of which he - an upper molars and lower premolars - 1927 in the Bulletin of the Geological Survey, described China as the teeth of a fossil representative of the genus Homo. Davidson Black named these fossils in the same year as Sinanthropus pekinensis ( " Peking Man "). Later they were assigned to Homo erectus.