Shangchen

Proper noun

Shangchen

1. A village in Yushan, Lantian, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China.
   • The new finds imply that hominins covered vast distances before 2 million years ago — Shangchen is 14,000 kilometres from the nearest sites in East Africa where other hominins of this age have been found. It’s possible that the Shangchen toolmakers, hunter-gatherers, were simply following their...2018 July 11, Colin Barras, “Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa”, in Nature, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 19 Feb 2019
   • According to the most recent reports, the earliest evidence of hominins in Asia is in the Shangchen site in Lantian in the northern Qinling Mountains with, and the age range is 2.12—1.26 Ma (Zhu et al., 2018).2018 October 15, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Shejiang Wang, Xinghua Xu, Qingxuan Zeng, Xuehe Lu, Chengqiu Lu, Wenchao Zhang, Xiaojian Zhang, Robin Dennell, “Hominin distribution in glacial-interglacial...