Exploring the Paleolithic in China

Paleolithic - 1.7 million year BP

List of sites:
Hexian, Tangshan, Jinniushan, Yunxian, Dali, Xujiayao, Dingcun, Liujiang, and Maba
Hexian - Hexian


Synopsis of the Paleolithic East Asia (China, Korea, Japan) - very extensive table of finds for East Asia categorized by tool cultural periods. See parent site: Origins Net: Three Million Years of Prehistoric Art, Religion and Symbol in Human Evolution

Looking for maps of sites.

Finds:

Wushan Man dated at 2.10 - 2.04 (?) at the Three Gorges Project along the Yangtze River. 110 species of animal fossils were found and Wushan Man represents man from the Lower Paleolithic.

Yuanmou Man 1.7 million BP
Lantian Man 600,00 - 1.7 million BP
Yunxian Man (?)
Peking Man 500,000 - 300,000 BP
Heliang Man 100,000 BP (?)

Remains in Xiacaowan in Shuanggon (center of Jiangsu-Anhi area, which may represent another birthplace of modern man) 40,000 BP - compare to

Upper Cave Man at Zhoukoudian

Looking for tables of cultural sequences, tool types.
Differences seem to be emerging between the tool cultures of north and south China.

Stone artifacts:
Baise Basin in Guangxi recovered stone artifacts dated from 800,000 BP.
Yunxian Man in Hubei Provice using axes at 800,000 BP. First indication of the use of axes in China.

Lower Paleolithic:
Lower Paleolithic cave site at Wanshouyan in Sanming, Fujian Province, east China may add an extra 100,000 years to the Fujian Paleolithic.

? Paleolithic:
Excavations of Heliang Man at Wu Gorge (most scenic) at the Three Gorges Project in Jingshuiwan Fengdu County yielded stone implements (cores, flakes, choppers, scrapers, pointers, etc.) and animal fossils (deer, ox, tapir, stegodon).

Upper Paleolithic:
Rich find at Shizitian in Jixian county, Shanxi Province, a west China Upper Paleolithic site (?)

Excavations at the Qinghai-Tibe railway of Upper Paleolithic and Microlithic artifacts date 10,000 - 30,000 BP may fill in the gap in the semi-lunar cultural circulation belt extending from Hailar in Inner Mongolia to Nyalam in Tibet.