Chen Xingcan

archaeologist

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I believe Zhoushan Islands would not be the only place to have such breakthrough findings,
These four projects are truly eye-opening… Salt has always been a crucial strategic resource, but knowledge of its ancient use and mining was long derived only from historical texts until salt archaeology formally began in the 1990s,
It updates our understanding of the origins of Chinese civilization in the middle and upper reaches of the Yellow River, and provides further evidence of the over-5,000-year timeline of Chinese civilization,
Previously we knew almost nothing about the existence of such remains in the Xuanhua area of Zhangjiakou,
These findings once again give robust material support to the assertion that China has a civilization stretching back more than 5,000 years,

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