ACTA ANTHROPOLOGICA SINICA
...Enter to browse or download papers...
Acta Anthroplogica Sinica, a quarterly founded in 1982, is sponsored by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and published by the Science Press, Beijing. The journal is published in Chinese usually with English abstracts/summaries.
Acta Anthroplogica Sinica is the only authoritative journal in China that focuses on physical anthropology, paleolithic archaeology and other disciplines related to them, and obtained many achievements in the study of human origins and paleolithic cultures, supporting the China’s position in the world anthropology forum. Chinese paleoanthropology has a long history and has much unique advantages of geography and resource in the study of anthropology than other countries or areas in the world, the research results and theories published by the journal have great influences on the international anthropology.
The main scope of Acta Anthroplogica Sinica includes:
1) studies of origin, evolution, pathology of human and primate, biological anthropology and applied anthropology;
2) studies of prehistoric human technology, behavior and culture;
3) excavation reports of ancient human and paleolithic site;
4) researches of stratigraphy, paleontology and paleoenvironment associated with human activities;
5) applications of new technologies and new methods related to anthropology (such as dating, DNA analysis) and their results.
Article types and their readers
Articles includes research papers, excavation reports, research presentations, etc. There are four issues published in every year, respectively in February, May, August and November.
Readers are mainly domestic and foreign anthropologists, archaeologists, ethnologists, geologists, paleontologists, medical and biological workers, college teachers and students, and other related professionals in museums, etc.
