Meaning of Shangchen | Babel Free

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A village in Yushan, Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.

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“The new finds imply that hominins covered vast distances before 2 million years ago — Shangchen is 14,000 kilometres from the nearest sites in East Africa where other hominins of this age have been found. It’s possible that the Shangchen toolmakers, hunter-gatherers, were simply following their foods, says Vivek Venkataraman, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.”

“According to the most recent reports, the earliest evidence of hominins in Asia is in the Shangchen site in Lantian in the northern Qinling Mountains with, and the age range is 2.12—1.26 Ma (Zhu et al., 2018).”

“At the same time, the earliest hominin evidence outside Africa came from our newly found 2.12-million-year old^([sic – meaning year-old]) stone tools, which were found at Shangchen, a paleolithic locality, in Lantian County in the southern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau.”

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