List of Paleolithic sites in China

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This is a list of Paleolithic sites in China. They are sorted in chronological order from dated earliest[a] to latest:

List

English nameChinese nameTimeModern-day location
Xihoudu[1]西侯渡2.43 MYAShanxi
Shangchen上陈（上陳）2.12 MYA – 1.26 MYALantian County, Shaanxi
Bose Basin博斯盆地Guangxi of southern China
He County和县（和縣）Anhui
Yuanmou County元谋县Yunnan
Xiaochangliang小长梁（小長梁）Nihewan Basin in Yangyuan County, Hebei
Zhoukoudian周口店0.7 MYA – 0.2 MYABeijing
Yuchanyan Cave玉蟾岩遗址Dao County, Hunan
Xianren Cave仙人洞Dayuan Village, Wannian County, Jiangxi
Damaidi大麦地（大麥地）Small village in Zhongwei, Ningxia, set amid the Weining Mountains on the north bend of the Yellow River
Guanyindong[2]黔西观音洞遗址Qianxi in the Chinese Province of Guizhou.

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑I.e. the earliest date an object found at the site has been dated to
  1. ↑Shen, Guanjun; Wang, Yiren; Tu, Hua; Tong, Haowen; Wu, Zhenkun; Kuman, Kathleen; Fink, David; Granger, Darryl E. (December 2020). "Isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China". L'Anthropologie. 124 (5) 102790. doi:10.1016/j.anthro.2020.102790.
  2. ↑Hu, Yue; Marwick, Ben; Zhang, Jia-Fu; Rui, Xue; Hou, Ya-Mei; Yue, Jian-Ping; Chen, Wen-Rong; Huang, Wei-Wen; Li, Bo (January 2019). "Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China". Nature. 565 (7737): 82–85. Bibcode:2019Natur.565...82H. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0710-1. PMID 30455423.