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<< News >> Palaeolithic stone tools found in China

Submitted by coldrum on Wednesday, 17 January 2007  Page Views: 1912

Mesolithic, Palaeolithic and EarlierCountry: China Archaeologists have discovered 21 sites and thousands of stone tools dating back to the Palaeolithic Age - more than 20,000 years back - in northwest China's Shaanxi province.

"Over 20,000 stone implements were unearthed from the sites near Longwangchan village, Yichuan county, during excavations," said a representative of thethe Shaanxi Provincial Archaeological Institute.
These stone implements include fine stone cores, a millstone and other stone tools. The most eye-catching discovery was a polished shovel made of shale, which is 12.7 cm long, 9.2 cm wide and 0.8 cm thick. Experts said the shovel was one of the most important discoveries from the Palaeolithic age in China and estimated it to be the earliest polished stone tool ever discovered in the country.

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