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The Bose Basin (百色盆地高岭坡遗址) is in the western part of Guangxi province in southern China, around the city of Baise (Bose), and is the site of the oldest known cutting tools of the Acheulean [1] [2] [3] archaeological industry in China. It is about 800 square kilometres (300 sq mi) in area.
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A trove of snake fossils dating to about 6,000 years ago were found in the Zuojiang River Basin.
Stone tools discovered at the Xiaochangliang site. The tool forms discovered include side and end scrapers, notches, burins, and disc cores.Although it is generally more difficult to date Asian sites than African sites because Asian sites typically lack volcanic materials that can be dated isotropically, the age of the tools has been magnetostratigraphically dated as 1.36 million years.
The Middle Paleolithic culture in China can be represented by the Dingcun site found in Xiangfen, Shanxi Province. Also more important are the Zhoukoudian Locality 15 culture and the Shanxi Yanggao Xujiayao Culture. [9] The Middle Paleolithic cultures of China maintained the types and processing techniques of earlier cultures.
The Javan rhino (Rhinoceros sondaicus) once roamed across many countries in Southeast Asia. Around 2,000 years ago, they were still common in many parts of China. Around 12,000 years ago, they ...
In 1959, archaeologists discovered the site on a terrace 170 meters above the river surface on the east bank of the Yellow River in Xihoudu Village, Ruicheng County. Three excavations were carried out in 1961, 1962, and 2005. [3] Dating back 1.8 million years, it is the oldest known Paleolithic cultural sites in China. [4]