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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Vishwam Sankaran

Archaeologists unearth evidence of ‘innovative’ Stone Age culture from 40,000 years ago in China

Fa-Gang Wang

Researchers have unearthed features of a “unique” and “innovative” 40,000-year-old Stone Age culture in China with the earliest known evidence of ochre processing in eastern Asia.

The findings from the archaeological site at Xiamabei in the Nihewan Basin in northern China shed light on human lifestyle in east Asia tens of thousands of years ago, scientists, including those from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, said.

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