ancient Chinese tools changes dates

A report indicates that ancient flaking tools found in China are very old and can imply an earlier than anticipated civilization had arisen much earlier. 

At earlier times, it was thought that a kind of stone tool making by flaking called 'Levallois' was found in Eurasia and Africa. The struck flakes were meant to become tools. They were thought not to be in the east in China. It was believed that skill traveled later to China about 40,000 years ago.

A recent find in a southern Chinese cave may prove otherwise. Bo Li at University of Wollongong in Australia say that style of tool making may be 160-170 thousand years old which could make the tool making as old or older than the western sites. There had not been found any human remains or fossils at the Chinese site. Those may have decayed in time.

There has also been a recovery of such tools in India said to date back as far as 385,000 years ago.

It is not yet certain which hominin species have forged those tools. They appear in the tracks of Neanderthal or Denisovans. However, the recent finds certainly changes the time line concept of the order of advanced tool making from the west to the east.