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The region of Ordos.
Bronze statuette of a man, Ordos, 3-1st century BCE. British Museum.

The Ordos culture existed in Upper Palaeolithic China. They used the chopping and rock tools of the Choukoutienian. 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.

Notes

  1. Jacquetta Hawkes and Sir Leonard Woolley, History of Mankind: Volume I. (New York: Harper and Row, 1963), p.172.
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