List of Paleolithic sites in China
This is a list of Paleolithic sites in China. They are sorted in chronological order from the earliest founding to the latest:
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China (clickable map)
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| ↓ Chalcolithic |
The list
| English name | Chinese name | Modern-day location |
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| Shangchen | 上陈（上陳） | Lantian County, Shaanxi |
| Bose Basin | Guangxi of southern China | |
| He County | 和县（和縣） | Anhui |
| Xihoudu | 西侯渡 | Shanxi |
| Yuanmou County | 元谋县 | Yunnan |
| Xiaochangliang | 小长梁（小長梁） | Nihewan Basin in Yangyuan County, Hebei |
| Zhoukoudian | 周口店 | 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[1] | 黔西观音洞遗址 | Qianxi in the Chinese Province of Guizhou. |
See also
- History of China
- List of Bronze Age sites in China
- List of Neolithic cultures of China
- Prehistoric Asia
Prehistoric cultures of China | |
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| Upper Yellow River | |
| Middle Yellow River |
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| Lower Yellow River | |
| Middle and Upper Yangtze |
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| Lower Yangtze and Huai | |
| Southern China |
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| Tibet |
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| Xinjiang | |
| Taiwan |
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| Paleolithic | |
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| Neolithic |
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| Chalcolithic | |
| Bronze Age |
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References
- Hu, Yue; Marwick, Ben; Zhang, Jia-Fu; Rui, Xue; Hou, Ya-Mei; Yue, Jian-Ping; Chen, Wen-Rong; Huang, Wei-Wen; Li, Bo (2018-11-19). "Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China". Nature. 565 (7737): 82–85. doi:10.1038/s41586-018-0710-1. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 30455423.
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