July
16
/ 2019
In China a team of archaeologists has made a significant discovery after examining a human bone that may be up to 125,000 years old. They found a small bone that shows signs that it was cut and then painted with ochre. This is the oldest known example of this practice from prehistory. It also indicates that extinct humans who once lived in East Asia were much more sophisticated than is often assumed. The bones were found in Xuchang, in the central Chinese province of Henan. They were unearthed at a site called Lingjing by an international team, who has been digging at the location since 2005. It was once inhabited by an extinct species of archaic hominids. According to the
