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In the past years we carried out further stratigraphy division in field and it is found that rich stone artifacts can be found in fluvial-shallow lake-alluvial sediments on the terrace II of Biangou River, in Shuidonggou site, Ningxia and they are SDG1, 2 and 7. More luminescence and AMS 14C dating in laboratory show that Paleolithic culture develops during the Upper Paleolithic period with ages of 35–20 ka. The Paleolithic culture of SDG 1 is a little earlier than that of SDG 2 similar to SDG 7. The sandy sediments on terrace II of Biangou River deposits in the past 72–18 ka, corresponding to Last Glacial. SDG2 has a stable sedimentary environment, resulting in the continuous stratigraphy, thickest deposits and rich environment and culture information, which can be regarded as the important and classic paleoanthropological section of Late Pleistocene in this region.
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Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(Grant No. 2006CB806400), Basic Scientific Special Program of MST of China (Grant No. 2007FY110200) and National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40602020)
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Liu, D., Wang, X., Gao, X. et al. Progress in the stratigraphy and geochronology of the Shuidonggou site, Ningxia, North China. Chin. Sci. Bull. 54, 3880–3886 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-009-0652-y
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