Where: Guizhou, China (25.6° N, 104.7° E: paleocoordinates 25.6° N, 104.7° E)

• coordinate stated in text

When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)

• Middle Pleistocene. U-series dating of travertine gives a minimum age for the deposit of 300,000BP.

Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported

Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils

• The first 2 seasons of excavation (1992-93) found fragmentary remains of over 40 species of mammal, over 2,000 stone artifacts, evidence for use of fire (charcoal, burnt bone, and ash) and one fragmentary hominid tooth.

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: bulk,

• 92 square metres of deposit were excavated.

Primary reference: W. Huang, X. Si, Y. Hou, S. Miller-Antonio, and L. A. Schepartz. 1995. Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China. Current Anthropology 36(5):844-846 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 51100: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 27.05.2005

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