Advanced Stone Age Culture Discovered in China


	Advanced Stone Age Culture Discovered in China

invictus

5-4-2007 2:00 PM

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archaeology, anthropology, stone age, civilization, china, science

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Technologically they were very similar to European Mousterian cultures, which were characterized by flint flake tools dating from 70,000 to 32,000 BC and named after archaeological finds in the cave of Le Moustier, Dordogne, France. The Levalloisian technique describes the flaking method and is named after the French town of Levallois-Perret where it was identified.

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