Bose Basin

Bose Basin
History
Shown within China
Location	Baise
Region	Guangxi
Coordinates	23°36′N 108°18′E / 23.6°N 108.3°E / 23.6; 108.3
Type	Paleolithic
Founded	2,000,000 years ago
Abandoned	800,000 years ago
Periods	Paleolithic China

The Bose Basin is in the western part of Guangxi province in southern China, around the city of Baise (Bose), and is the site of the oldest known cutting tools of the Acheulean^[1]^[2]^[3] archaeological industry in China. It is about 800 square kilometres (300 sq mi) in area.

The first discovery was in 1973, when petroleum geologists accidentally ran across a dozen stone artifacts. Paleolithic stone tools, notably hand axes have since been found at 114 sites in the basin.^[1] They were found in a tektite layer dated to 800,000 years ago. Fossils in some of the caves may be 2 million years old.^[2]^[3]

References

1 2 Xu et al. 2012. Spatial distribution of Paleolithic sites in Bose Basin, Guangxi, China. Quaternary International 281. 10-13.
1 2 Bose, China at Smithsonian Museum of Natural History site
1 2 Hou Y.; Potts, R.; Yuan, B.; Guo, Z.; Deino, A.; Wang, W.; Clark, J.; Xie, G.; Huang, W. 2000. Mid-Pleistocene Acheulean-like stone technology of the Bose Basin, South China. Science 287, 1622-1626.

Prehistoric Asia

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Neolithic	Fertile crescent Early Neolithic settlements Khiamian Natufian culture Neolithic China Neolithic Tibet Neolithic Korea Neolithic Revolution Neolithic South Asia Ohalo Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (Mesopotamia) Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (Mesopotamia)

Chalcolithic	Daimabad Halaf culture Uruk period

Bronze Age	Andronovo culture Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex Bronze Age Anatolia Bronze Age Caucasus Bronze Age China Bronze Age India Bronze Age Korea Bronze Age Levant List of Bronze Age sites in China Seima-Turbino phenomenon

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