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  {{Location map~|China|lat=31.680556|long=118.270278|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[He County]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=34.693056|long=110.27|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[Xihoudu]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=25.717778|long=101.861111|position=left |label_size=75 |label=[[Yuanmou County|Yuanmou]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=40.1167|long=114.1667|position=left |label_size=75 |label=[[Xiaochangliang]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=39.689167|long=115.923889|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[Zhoukoudian]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=25.606667|long=111.482778|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[Yuchanyan Cave|Yuchanyan]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=29.565556|long=115.958611|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[Xianren Cave]]}}
  {{Location map~|China|lat=37.51|long=105.18|position=right |label_size=75 |label=[[Damaidi]]}}
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This is a '''list of [[Paleolithic]] sites in [[China]]'''. They are sorted in chronological order from the earliest founding{{clarify|date=November 2021}} to the latest:

==List==
{{expand list|date=July 2018}}

{| class="wikitable"
|- align="center"
! English name
! Chinese name
! Time
! Modern-day location
|-
| [[Xihoudu]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=西侯渡}}
|2.43 MYA
| [[Shanxi]]
|-
| [[Shangchen]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=上陈（上陳）}}
| 2.12 MYA – 1.26 MYA
| [[Lantian County]], [[Shaanxi]]
|-
| [[Bose Basin]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=博斯盆地}}
|
| [[Guangxi]] of southern China
|-
| [[He County]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=和县（和縣）}}
|
| [[Anhui]]
|-
|-
| [[Yuanmou County]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=元谋县}}
|
| [[Yunnan]]
|-
| [[Xiaochangliang]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=小长梁（小長梁）}}
|
| Nihewan Basin in [[Yangyuan County]], [[Hebei]]
|-
| [[Zhoukoudian]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=周口店}}
|
| [[Beijing]]
|-
| [[Yuchanyan Cave]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=玉蟾岩遗址}}
|
| [[Dao County]], [[Hunan]]
|-
| [[Xianren Cave]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=仙人洞}}
|
| Dayuan Village, [[Wannian County]], Jiangxi
|-
| [[Damaidi]]
| {{zh|labels=no|s=大麦地（大麥地）}}
|
| Small village in [[Zhongwei]], [[Ningxia]], set amid the Weining Mountains on the north bend of the [[Yellow River]]
|-
|[[Guanyindong]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hu|first=Yue|last2=Marwick|first2=Ben|last3=Zhang|first3=Jia-Fu|last4=Rui|first4=Xue|last5=Hou|first5=Ya-Mei|last6=Yue|first6=Jian-Ping|last7=Chen|first7=Wen-Rong|last8=Huang|first8=Wei-Wen|last9=Li|first9=Bo|date=2018-11-19|title=Late Middle Pleistocene Levallois stone-tool technology in southwest China|journal=Nature|volume=565|issue=7737|pages=82–85|language=En|doi=10.1038/s41586-018-0710-1|pmid=30455423|issn=0028-0836}}</ref>
| {{zh|labels=no|s=黔西观音洞遗址}}
|
|Qianxi in the Chinese Province of [[Guizhou]].
|-
|}

==See also==
*[[History of China]]
*[[Prehistory of China]]
*[[List of Bronze Age sites in China]]
*[[List of Neolithic cultures of China]]
*[[List of inventions and discoveries of Neolithic China]]

==References==
<ref>Isochron 26Al/10Be burial dating of Xihoudu: Evidence for the earliest human settlement in northern China – G. Shen et al., L'Anthropologie Volume 124, Issue 5, December 2020, 102790  [https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S000355212030073X www.sciencedirect.com]</ref>

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