# John W. Olsen

> John W. Olsen is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia. Olsen is Regents Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is also a Leading International Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences', Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk. Olsen is Guest Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing where he is also Co-Director of the Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center (中国科学院周口店国际古人类研究中心联席主任). Olsen has been named a Distinguished Researcher of the Nihewan Research Center in Hebei Province, China (泥河湾研究中心特聘研究员). He is also a Foreign Expert affiliated with The Yak Museum in Lhasa (西藏牦牛博物馆国外专家).

*American archaeologist*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1955
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

John W. Olsen is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia. Olsen is Regents Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona, USA. He is also a Leading International Researcher at the Russian Academy of Sciences', Siberian Branch, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography in Novosibirsk. Olsen is Guest Research Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing where he is also Co-Director of the Zhoukoudian International Paleoanthropological Research Center (中国科学院周口店国际古人类研究中心联席主任). Olsen has been named a Distinguished Researcher of the Nihewan Research Center in Hebei Province, China (泥河湾研究中心特聘研究员). He is also a Foreign Expert affiliated with The Yak Museum in Lhasa (西藏牦牛博物馆国外专家).

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