Carl Whiting Bishop | |||||||||
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| Born | July 12, 1881 Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||
| Died | June 16, 1942 (aged 60) | ||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||
| Occupation | Archaeologist | ||||||||
| Chinese name | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 畢安祺 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 毕安祺 | ||||||||
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Carl Whiting Bishop (July 12, 1881 – June 16, 1942) was an American archeologist who specialized in East Asian civilizations. From 1922 to 1942 he was a curator at the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.[1]
At his death Bishop was praised for his ability to synthesize a wide range of evidence and present them "in ordered and highly engaging fashion", which was "the best sort of popularization of prehistory".[2] He argued for the then popular theory of hyperdiffusionism, the theory that all civilizations originated in one place and spread to others, in this case, from the Near East to China. He was criticized, however, for going beyond the accepted evidence.[3]