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Experts from the Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology believe that the most effective way to resolve these disputes and problems is to further excavate to obtain new information.With the progress of archaeological work, the artificial traces of stone products have been determined, and the chronological problem has been solved. The Xihoudu site has become one of the world's first-class Paleolithic archaeological sites.
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A total of 32 stone artifacts were discovered at the
Xihoudu site in the 1960s, including stone cores, flakes, and stone tools. They are among the earliest stone tools discovered in China. The stone tooling technology is relatively primitive, the raw material is quartzite of various colors, there are
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also a small amount of vein quartz and volcanic rock. During more than 50 days of excavation in 2005, more than 1,500 stone products and animal fossil specimens were found. Among the stone products, there are many fine products and standardized products with lighter abrasion and clear strike marks.
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In 1959, archaeologists discovered the site on a terrace 170 meters above the river surface on the east bank of the Yellow River in
Xihoudu Village, Ruicheng County. Three excavations were carried out in 1961, 1962, and 2005. Dating back 1.8 million years, it is the oldest known Paleolithic cultural
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Beijing. However, the Paleolithic archaeologist Wang Jian(王建) inferred that there must have been more primitive humans before the "Peking Man". This inference was affirmed by the paleoanthropologist Professor Jia Lanpo(贾兰坡). In order to prove their theoretical inference, Jia Lanpo, Wang Jian and
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After the discovery of the
Xihoudu site, it has not been fully recognized by the academic community. There are disagreements and disputes about whether the unearthed stone tools were made by hand. Pei Wenzhong , Zhang Senshui(张森水), etc. believe that the "artificial nature of stone tools cannot be
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Ruicheng County People's Government established the Xihoudu Cultural Relics Protection Group; in 1986, the Shanxi Provincial People's Government announced the Xihoudu Cultural Site as a key cultural relic protection unit in the province; in 1988, the Xihoudu Site was designated as a
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Some relics coexisting with stone tools include cut or scraped antlers, as well as burned animal bones, horns and teeth, which are considered to be signs of human use of fire. The history of the ancient
Chinese people using fire at the Xihoudu site has advanced 1.1 million years from 500,000 to
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Protection unit (third batch). In 2013, the cultural relics department of Ruicheng County, Shanxi Province built the Xihoudu Site Exhibition Hall with a total construction area of about 130 square meters to protect the unearthed cultural relics.
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