Paleolithic sites in China

archeological site

archaic humans from 12,500 BCE in southwest China

Buddhist sanctuary and paleoanthrological site on the Tibetan Plateau in Gansu, China

town in Tingri, Shigatse, Tibet, China

Shangchen () is a Lower Palaeolithic archaeological site in Lantian County, Shaanxi, China, some 25 km south of Weinan. It was discovered in 1964, and excavated during 2004 and 2017.

Homo fossil

cave and archaeological site in China

Xiaochangliang () is the site of some of the earliest Paleolithic remains in East Asia, located in the Nihewan (泥河灣) Basin in Yangyuan County, Hebei, China, most famous for the stone tools discovered there.

Xujiayao, located in the Nihewan Basin in China, is an early Late Pleistocene paleoanthropological site famous for its archaic hominin fossils.

cave complex and archaeological site in China

Xihoudu () is an archeological site located in the Shanxi Province of China. The site has been dated to 2.43 million years ago, i.e. the Paleolithic Age. In total 32 stone implements were found at the site.

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Shuidonggou section of the Great Wall (水洞沟)|thumb Shuidonggou is an archaeological site and tourist attraction in Ordos, Yinchuan, Ningxia. It is the earliest paleolithic site in China, dating from over 30,000 years ago, and one of the AAAAA Tourist Attractions of China, a list of the most important and best-maintained tourist attractions in the People's Republic of China.

Damaidi (; literally: Big wheat field) is the location of 3,172 sets of early Chinese petroglyphs, carved into the cliffs which feature 8,453 individual figures. Cliff carving expert Li Xiangshi stated that "The pictographs are similar to the ancient hieroglyphs of Chinese characters and many can be identified as ancient characters," Another expert said "Through arduous research, we have found that some pictographs are commonly seen in up to hundreds of pictures in the carvings," said Liu Jingyun, an expert on ancient Oracle Bone characters. The size, shape and meanings of the pictographs in d