“要叫自己的头脑围着事实转，不能叫事实围着自己的头脑转”。
“One’s head should revolve around the facts, not the facts around your head.”

　　河北玉田人，旧石器考古学家。1935年接替裴文中主持周口店发掘，次年发掘到三具北京直立人头骨。深入研究了北京人及其共生的各种动物化石之间的关系，提出北京人在周口店生活期间曾经历过冷暖更替的气候变迁。先后组织参加了山西丁村、许家窑等一系列著名古人类、古文化遗址的发掘，对世界范围内细石器的两大传统以及细石器起源和分布等理论问题进行了研究。1980年当选中科院学部委员（院士）。曾当选美国国家科学院外籍院士、第三世界科学院院士。曾任古脊椎所研究员、新生代研究室副主任、标本室主任及周口店工作站站长。

Professor Jia Lanpo was born in 1908 in Yutian, Hebei Province, and he was one of China’s leading archeologists. He replaced Pei Wenchung as the head of the Zhoukoudian excavations in 1935, and found three skulls of Homo erectus pekinensis in the following year. He examined the relationship between the Peking Man and fossils of various associated animals, and proposed that Peking Man experienced climate change at Zhoukoudian. He organized and participated in the excavation of a series of famous ancient human and cultural sites, such as the Dingcun and Xujiayao sites in Shanxi Province, and studied two traditions of microlith technology, including their origin and global distribution. He was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1980, a foreign associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States in 1994, and a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 1996. Jia was a professor of the IVPP, vice director of the Division of Cenozoic Research, director of the Institute’s collections, and head of the Zhoukoudian workstation.