East Asia in Prehistory
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The Origins of East Asia
In the Xyachuan Basin of northern China, archaeologists have discovered a cluster of 16 sites that date from about twenty-four thousand to sixteen thousand years before the present. They're all similar enough in their stone tool technology that they form a single tradition and those stone tools tell us a lot about how they lived. The evidence we do have suggests that people here practiced an extensive subsistence strategy. That means they moved a lot in order to exploit a narrow range of high-value food resources.
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