Bone carvings from the Dadong Paleolithic site in Jilin province. - China Daily/ANN
BEIJING: Several of China's breakthrough discoveries in archaeology last year shared the spotlight on Wednesday (Feb 19) at a forum in Beijing organised by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' Institute of Archaeology, as the institute released its annual list of the top six new archaeological discoveries.
The discovered sites and items, spanning from the Paleolithic period of the Stone Age to the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), provide outstanding examples from more than 1,700 archaeological excavations across the country in 2024, said Qiao Yunfei, deputy director of the National Cultural Heritage Administration.
