List of Paleolithic sites in China
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China (clickable map)
| The Stone Age |
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Paleolithic (3.3 Mya - 12 ka)
Mesolithic (20 ka - 5 ka) Neolithic (12 ka - 4 ka) |
| ↓ Chalcolithic |
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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 name | Chinese name | Time | Modern-day location |
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| Xihoudu[1] | 西侯渡 | 2.43 MYA | Shanxi |
| Shangchen | 上陈（上陳） | 2.12 MYA – 1.26 MYA | Lantian 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 MYA | Beijing |
| 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
- History of China
- Prehistory of China
- List of Bronze Age sites in China
- List of Neolithic cultures of China
- List of inventions and discoveries of Neolithic China
Notes and references
- ^ I.e. the earliest date an object found at the site has been dated to
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.