11,000-Year-Old Burial Uncovered in China

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GUIYANG, CHINA—Xinhua News Agency reports that the 11,000-year-old burial of a child who was under the age of two at the time of death has been found in a cave in southwest China. Zhang Xinglong of Guizhou Province’s Institute of Archaeology said tone tools, bone objects, and hunting tools dating to the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras were also found at the site. Researchers are now working to determine whether the tomb is the oldest to be recorded in the province. To read more about Neolithic and Paleolithic discoveries in China, go to "The First Pots."

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6289-180119-china-child-burial

DNA studies identified the remains contained in the tomb to be from a child under two years old, according to the provincial institute of cultural relics and archaeology.

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The findings will further research on the transformation of stone implements and the history of human settlement in central Guizhou.

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-01/19/c_136909114.htm

Oh good, they are in fact doing DNA studies on the remains of the child.
 
they should also look for Denisovan admixture and make a PCA chart with Jomon and neolithic Chinese DNA in it
 

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