Meaning of Loess Plateau | Babel Free

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A plateau that covers an area of some 640,000 km² in the upper and middle reaches of China's Yellow River.

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“The Loess Plateau China’s Loess Plateau is the most widely distributed loess area on earth. This loess is a deep deposit of paleosol, and the plateau is most systematically and completely developed for crops (Zhu Xianmo, 1986).”

“First excavated in A.D. 1963 at Lantian (near Xi’an) on the warm temperate Loess Plateau, the Lantian people lived about 800,000 to 600,000 years before the present.”

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