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4,000-year-old bone workshop tells story of China’s transition from the Neolithic period


4,000-year-old bone workshop tells story of China’s transition from the Neolithic period

It is unlikely that many readers would suspect that the nearly 20,000 bone needles discovered in northwest China would provide modern scientists with insight into the technological advances that marked the transition between two eras of human development. But they do. A bone needle workshop at a site called Shimao in Shaanxi Province is an […]