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7,000-Year-Old Relics Unearthed In NW China
Northern Light/Xinhua ^ | 10-14-2002

Posted on 10/15/2002 12:04:36 PM PDT by blam

7,000-year-old relics unearthed in NW China

Story Filed: Monday, October 14, 2002 10:22 PM EST

XI'AN, Oct 15, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- About 300 pieces of pottery, jade and bone utensil relics have been unearthed in northwest China's Shaanxi Province.

Ash pits and ruins of houses and tombs dating from 7,000 to 600 years ago were dug up by Chinese archaeologists in an area covering over 2,500 sq meters of Shaanxi's Baoji County.

More than 100 pottery utensils unearthed were complete or restorable, according to the archaeologists.

Most of the Neolithic pottery, including bowls, cups, pots and vases, are made of red and brown earth, and a few are dark or gray. Archaeologists said they are in delicate condition and covered with pretty designs.

Among the bone utensils discovered, a knife attracted the most attention from the archaeologists. With graphics on its hilt and blade, it is believed to have a cutting edge made of stone.

Experts said the find proves that ancient residents here learned how to made complicated tools out of bone and stone as long as 7,000 years ago, during the Neolithic Age.

The unearthed relics display a broader picture of the Neolithic culture along the upper reaches of the Yellow River, believed to be one of the cradles of Chinese civilization, archaeologists noted.

Copyright 2002 XINHUA NEWS AGENCY


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 7000; china; nw; relics; unearthed
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You'll hear no more about this when it is realized they were made by Caucasians who I believe were living in that area at that time.
1 posted on 10/15/2002 12:04:36 PM PDT by blam
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2 posted on 10/15/2002 12:07:00 PM PDT by blam
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and one of the Caucasians still (barely) survives...

3 posted on 10/15/2002 12:07:33 PM PDT by ErnBatavia
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Gotta be the BEST of THE DAY!!! LOL!!!!!!!!!!
4 posted on 10/15/2002 12:11:07 PM PDT by litehaus
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The Ainu Of Japan
5 posted on 10/15/2002 12:11:54 PM PDT by blam
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To: ErnBatavia
Oh.. I thought they found Helen Thomas, too.
6 posted on 10/15/2002 12:13:55 PM PDT by A. Morgan
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Jomon And Yayoi
7 posted on 10/15/2002 12:14:23 PM PDT by blam
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11,000 Year Old Jomon Skeleton
8 posted on 10/15/2002 12:16:56 PM PDT by blam
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and one of the Caucasians still (barely) survives...

Hah! how can you call her livng?

9 posted on 10/15/2002 12:54:15 PM PDT by curmudgeonII
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'Old Humans' BUMP!
10 posted on 10/15/2002 12:58:26 PM PDT by Pagey
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Who was it, a week or two ago, that you were telling me were from the Altai mountain region?
11 posted on 10/15/2002 3:55:12 PM PDT by blam
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With graphics on its hilt and blade, it is believed to have a cutting edge made of stone.

What, they can't tell by looking at it whether the cutting edge is stone or metal?
12 posted on 10/15/2002 3:58:07 PM PDT by aruanan
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To: ET(end tyranny); FreeLibertarian; Bohemund; Seeking the truth; FreetheSouth!; Marie Antoinette; ...
Ding, ding.
13 posted on 10/15/2002 3:59:13 PM PDT by blam
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"What, they can't tell by looking at it whether the cutting edge is stone or metal?"

Maybe bone or stone not, stone or metal, huh?

14 posted on 10/15/2002 4:01:40 PM PDT by blam
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I'd really appreciate being added to your ping list if you have one.
15 posted on 10/15/2002 4:04:43 PM PDT by the-ironically-named-proverbs2
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That's Cauc? I guessed Orc or Troll. Perhaps Halfling. Half that and half something else.
16 posted on 10/15/2002 4:10:11 PM PDT by RightWhale
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Okay.
17 posted on 10/15/2002 4:11:00 PM PDT by blam
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whether the cutting edge is stone or metal

Guess: the cutting edge is missing from the frame.

18 posted on 10/15/2002 4:11:25 PM PDT by RightWhale
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Did you see this article?

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feature: Chinese hominid challenges out-of-Africa origin of modern man

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Story Filed: Friday, October 11, 2002 8:03 AM EST

Oct 11, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) -- The limited capacity of the commonly-used radiocarbon, or carbon-14 method, which could date back no further than 50,000 years, had previously rendered it impossible to achieve an accurate dating of the human fossils.

Through the use of the new thermal ionization mass spectrometer, which measures the rate of decay in radioactive uranium (TIMS U- series dating), a more accurate and larger dating range can be achieved, said Wang, who is also a senior researcher with the Guangxi Museum of Nature.

The scientists dated "Liujiang Man" by measuring the rate of decay of uranium by counting the number of thorium atoms, but instead of dating the fossils, which are porous, they dated the sediments, which better retain uranium, above and below the fossils.

"Referring to the excavation record in 1958, we confirmed that the Liujiang Hominid was discovered in sedimentary breccia fragments in the middle layer, whose age is the same as that of the fossils," Wang said.

The estimated age of "Liujiang Man" challenges the 15-year-old "out of Africa" theory that holds that modern humans first appeared in eastern Africa about 150,000 years ago, migrated out of the continent between 35,000 and 89,000 years ago, and moved across the globe to sweep aside populations, with no inter- breeding.

There are still dissident scientists who insist on the multi- regional evolution model which holds that modern man descended from several indigenous archaic human populations in the Old World, such as the Neanderthals who resided in Europe or from the so- called Java man or from the Peking man in Asia.

This alternative theory, called multi-regionalism, also holds that our ancestors emigrated from Africa 1.5 million years ago, but differs in that it holds that different branches in several different regions -- what is now Africa, Europe, east Asia and west Asia -- evolved simultaneously into modern humans through interbreeding between the regions.

Copyright 2002 XINHUA NEWS AGENCY.

19 posted on 10/15/2002 4:16:43 PM PDT by scouse
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Also found: the first cardboard carryout packages with fossilized kung pao chicken inside.
20 posted on 10/15/2002 4:17:14 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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