A 40,000-year-old site in northern China may have revealed the earliest evidence of ochre processing in eastern Asia, and even the first colonisation of an indigenous culture. The find indicates innovative behaviours with the mineral pigment, although its purpose remains unclear, according to an international team behind the dig, which also unearthed a collection of about 400 stone tools. Most.
The finds were made at Xiamabei, a Palaeolithic-aged site located on the south bank of the Huliu River in China's Nihewan Basin, some 100 miles west of Beijing, back in 2013–14. Nihewan Basin is notable for its abundance of archaeological sites that range in age from around two million to 10,000 years ago. While modern
BEIJING, March 3 (Xinhua) An international team including Chinese, French, and German archeologists has reported a unique pigment-processing and stone-making
Scientists discovered remnants of an Old Stone Age culture, less than 100 miles (160 kilometers) west of Beijing, where ancient hominins used a reddish pigment called ochre and crafted tiny, blade-like tools from stone. The archaeological site, called Xiamabei, offers a rare glimpse into the life of Homo sapiens and now-extinct human relatives who inhabited the region some 40,000 years ago.