Archaeologists excavating the Longtan site in Yunnan province, on the southwestern edge of the Tibetan Plateau, uncovered hundreds of stone artifacts from two trenches dug into the region’s ...

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The first definitive evidence of Middle Paleolithic Quina technology in East Asia has been uncovered in the Longtan site in ...

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The findings, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), are based on artifacts excavated from the Longtan site in Heqing County, Yunnan, on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Yunnan. The lakes likely hosted primitive freshwater fish and abundant insects," she added. The research team, led by Academician Ding Lin from the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research ...