Archaeologists have been excavating at the Nanzuo heritage site in Qingyang, on China’s Loess Plateau, in Gansu province. Dating back 4,600 to 5,200 years, according to China Daily, the Nanzuo site was found in an area that represents one of ‘the largest known human settlement complexes of its time,’ covering 600 hectares. Last Wednesday, Han Jianye, a professor at Renmin University of China who is leading the excavation, attended an online conference held by the National Cultural Heritage Administration. The archaeologist told Chinese authorities that the site offers key physical evidence ‘for the pivotal role of the middle reaches of the Yellow River in the birth of Chinese civilization’. [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"92321","attributes":{"alt":"The Nanzuo site in Qingyang, Northwest China's Gansu Province. (China's National
