45,000 yo stone tools found in China?

[Angela]

See:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6250-180103-china-tongtiandong-cave

I wouldn't take that dating as gospel just yet. It sounds as if there are a lot of layers there.

"Newsweek reports that archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences have recovered some 2,000 artifacts from continuous layers spanning tens of thousands of years in Tongtiandong Cave, which is located in northern China. Some of the artifacts, such as stone tools and the butchered and burned bones of rabbits, sheep, donkeys, rhinoceroses, bears, and birds, are thought to be 45,000 years old. Other artifacts include objects made of iron and bronze, pottery, and millstones for grinding grain. Wheat recovered from the cave has been dated to between 3,500 and 5,000 years ago. It could be some of the first wheat grown in the region. "

 

[bicicleur 2]

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/News/New_discoveries/2017/1226/60553.html

the tools are middle paleolithic, 45 ka is not surprisingly early for that

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/News/New_discoveries/2018/0102/60610.html

these would be 50 ka in NW China, near the Altai Mts middle paleolithic mousterien
possibly Neanderthal or Denisovan, I would guess, modern humans arrived in these areas some 5000 years later with upper paleolithic tools