Shi Xingeng

Shi Xingeng
Born2 August 1912
Died29 May 1939 (1939-05-30) (aged 26)
NationalityChinese
Alma materZhejiang Provincial First Middle School
Scientific career
FieldsArchaeology
Geologist
Mineralogy
InstitutionsWest Lake Museum
Chinese name
Chinese施昕更
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShī Xīngēng

Shi Xingeng (2 August 191229 May 1939) was a Chinese geologist, mineralogist, and archaeologist. He is known as the earliest scientific excavator of the Liangzhu site and a prominent researcher of Liangzhu culture, for he conducted the earliest scientific excavations of the archaeological ruins of Liangzhu.