Yang Shixia, associate researcher of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), and colleagues at home and abroad, have recently discovered archaeological evidence of the use of pigments and their composite tools by early humans at the Xiamabei site in the Nihewan Basin, including: The pigment raw material hematite (ocher), processing stone tools and small stone inlays and other important relics, research confirmed that its age is more than 40,000 years ago, and it is the earliest known prehistoric human processing and using pigments and complex production in China and even in East Asia. Key evidence for technology.
This important research paper was published online in the internationally renowned academic journal "Nature" in the early morning of March 3rd, Beijing time, and was released on the same day as one of the important progresses of the "Archaeological China" major project of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
The picture shows that on January 25, before the results were published, Yang Shixia, the co-first author and co-corresponding author of the paper, was interviewed by a reporter from China News Agency in Beijing, showing the remains of hematite (ocher) specimens studied.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Sun Zifa
Release time: 2022-03-03 18:29:40 【Editor: Li Peiyun】