Tongtiandong
Archaeological site in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not to be confused with Tongtianlong.
Tongtiandong (Chinese: 通天洞, Tōngtiāndòng) is an archaeological site in the Xinjiang Autonomous Region of China, just to the south of the Altai mountains. The site had hunter-foraging human activity circa 40,000 BP (the Mousterian cultural layer was radiocarbon dated to approximately 46,000–44,000 BP, calibrated).[1][2][3]
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Region | Xinjian China |
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Coordinates | 47.006093°N 85.980127°E / 47.006093; 85.980127 |
History | |
Founded | 46,000–44,000 BP cal |
Periods | Paleolithic China |
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