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SUBMITTER: Yang SX
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4874576 | biostudies-literature | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yang Shi-Xia SX Hou Ya-Mei YM Yue Jian-Ping JP Petraglia Michael D MD Deng Cheng-Long CL Zhu Ri-Xiang RX
PloS one 20160520 5
Xiaochangliang (XCL), located in the Nihewan Basin of North China, is a key archaeological locality for understanding the behavioural evolution of early humans. XCL dates to ca. 1.36 Ma, making it one of the earliest sites in Northeast Asia. Although XCL represents the first excavation of an Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan Basin, identified and excavated in the 1970's, the lithic assemblages have never been published in full detail. Here we describe the lithic assemblages from XCL, providi ...[more]