Ordosian culture

This article is about Ordosian culture as a Paleolithic culture. For other uses, see Ordos (disambiguation). For the Ordos culture of the Bronze Age and early Iron Age, see Ordos culture. For the history of human settlement in the Ordos Plateau, see Ordos Loop.
Location of the archaeological finds of the Ordosian culture.

The Ordosian culture, sometimes referred to as the Ordos culture.[1] is a culture documented in the Ordos Plateau, in the south of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, from the Upper Palaeolithic.[2][3]

The points and sides of their tools indicate a "Moustero-Levalloisian" element. They seemed to have a masterful knowledge of Upper Palaeolithic technology, producing blades as much as fifteen centimeters long.[2]

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  1. PALEOANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA, Editors Wu Rukang, John W Olsen, p. 187, 2009, Left Coast Press, ISBN 1598744585, 9781598744583, google books
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jacquetta Hawkes and Sir Leonard Woolley, History of Mankind: Volume I. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), p.172.
  3. Silberman, Neil Asher; Bauer, Alexander A., eds., The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, p. 297, 2012, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199735786, 9780199735785, google books

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