151:. It is located on the side of Meiyuan Hill. Palaeontological interest started in 2004 when a farmer accidentally found bones that were later identified as mammalian fossils. Excavations started in 2006 by paleontologists from the
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Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University (2013). "The Hualong Cave upper Paleolithic site in Dongzhi County, Anhui".
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Hualong Cave shows the lifestyle of humans in the
Paleolithic Age. Bone tools were used for cutting animals but not for hunting. More than 100 stone tools have been discovered. These stone tools were made from
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1038:Categories
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234:Ailuropoda
207:Stone tool
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281:molar
91:Depth
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