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science19 days ago•5 min saved

Ancient China’s 146k-year-old tools reveal a deep ice-age tech leap

Archaeologists at Lingjing, China, uncovered 146,000-year-old disc-shaped stone cores that show advanced knapping and 3D understanding of stone properties, linked to Homo juluensis and suggesting Denisovan-related interactions. This extends East Asia’s ice-age tech by about 20,000 years and challenges the idea that complex lithic technology arose later in Africa/Europe, with dating refined using uranium-thorium dating of calcite within a bone.

via The Debrief|

#denisovans #homo-juluensis #lingjing-site

archaeology7 months ago•40 min saved

Earliest hafted tools uncovered in central China (160k–72k years ago)

New findings from Xigou in central China date to roughly 160,000–72,000 years ago and reveal advanced lithic technologies—core-on-flake and discoid reduction, a diverse suite of small flakes, and the earliest hafted (composite) tools in Eastern Asia—indicating a long span (about 90,000 years) of technological innovation and adaptive strategies during the late Middle to middle Late Pleistocene, with implications for hominin variability (e.g., brain size) at contemporary sites like Lingjing.

via Nature|

#archaeology #east-asia-archaeology #hafting