Initial Upper Paleolithic technology reached North China by ~41,000 years ago (IMAGE)

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Initial Upper Paleolithic technology reached North China by ~41,000 years ago

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SDG2 T3 stratigraphy. On the left, the schematic column summarizes the general sediment characteristic and archaeological remain distribution of the site stratigraphic sequence. On the right, the photographs and schematic drawings show a close-up view of different parts of the stratigraphic sequence. The distribution of the three main types of archaeological remains recovered (lithics, fauna remains and ostrich egg shell fragments) corresponding to the photographed sections are overlain on the schematic drawings. The partitioning of the seven cultural layers (CL1a-7) are denoted beside the schematic drawings.

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Peng et al, 2020 (PLOS ONE) CC BY

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