For the first time, researchers successfully sequenced the genome of ancient human fossils from the Late Pleistocene in southern China. The data, published in the journal The lateral view of the skull unearthed from Red Dear Cave [Credit: Xueping Ji] “Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool,” Su says. “It tells us quite definitively…
Scientists at the Centro Nacional de Investigacion sobre la Evolucion Humana (CENIEH) form part of a team of Chinese, Spanish, and French scientists that has just published a study of what may prove to be China’s most ancient human fossil, in the Remains of jawbone and teeth of Gongwangling skull [Credit: Xing Song] This site…
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A research team at Kiel University has reconstructed in detail the spread of the grain from East Asia to Central Europe. Broomcorn millet shortly before harvest [Credit: © Wiebke Kirleis] People were already living in a globalized world 3,500 years ago. That is the conclusion of researchers at Kiel University (CAU). They have been able…
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A large-scale tomb cluster dating back to the late Shang Dynasty (1600-1046 BC) was recently discovered in Shaojiapeng Village, Anyang City of central China’s Henan Province, according to the city’s institute of cultural relics and archaeology. Warriors from their retinue and horses for drawing chariots were sacrificed by being buried alive at the funerals of…
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Archaeologists in north China’s Shanxi Province have discovered three brick tomb chambers with murals inside dating back to the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). Exterior view of the southwest tomb [Credit: Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology] The tombs are located in the Luzhou District in the city of Changzhi, according to the Shanxi provincial institute of archaeology….
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About 100 Buddha sculptures carved into a cliff in north China’s Shanxi Province have reemerged after archaeologists removed the earth and stones that had covered them, according to the provincial institute of archaeology. The cliff is located on the east bank of the Fenhe River, 7 km southwest of Huozhou City in Shanxi. Credit: Shanxi…
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After more than four months of archaeological excavation, the ruins of an ancient large-scale distillery have been unearthed in Hengshui City, Hebei Province in north China. A section of the ancient distillery site discovered in Hebei, north China [Credit: Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology via Xinhua News Agency] According to archaeologists, the distillery…
An ancient tomb with rare murals dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) has been restored in north China’s Shanxi Province, according to the Taiyuan Northern Qi Dynasty Mural Museum. Part of restored murals of an ancient tomb dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618-907) in Taiyuan, northChina’s Shanxi Province [Credit: Taiyuan Institute of Cultural…
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An ancient bronze dating back to the Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 BC-771 BC) was unearthed from a ruin site in Beijing, it was announced on Sunday. The bronze features an inscription discussing the establishment of a city nearly 3,000 years ago. Bronze vessel from Western Zhou Dynasty with inscription [Credit: Beijing Municipal Bureau of Cultural Relics]…
Archaeologists said Friday that they had found the earliest evidence of Chinese people using monascus to make alcohol in 8,000-year-old clay pots unearthed in central China. Burial excavated at the Peiligang site in Xinzheng City, Henan Province [Credit: Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences via Xinhua News Agency] A large amount of monascus hypha and cleistothecia, together with…
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