2018 July 11, Colin Barras, “Tools from China are oldest hint of human lineage outside Africa”, in Nature[1], →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2019-02-19[2]:
The new finds imply that hominins covered vast distances before 2 million years ago — Shangchen is 14,000 kilometres from the nearest sites in East Africa where other hominins of this age have been found. It’s possible that the Shangchen toolmakers, hunter-gatherers, were simply following their foods, says Vivek Venkataraman, an evolutionary ecologist at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2018 July 15, “Archaeologists discover ancient tools in Lantian County, NW China”, in ZX, editor, Xinhua News Agency[3], archived from the original on 10 August 2020, page 3[4]:
Undated file photo shows archaeologists exploring at an archaeological site where paleplithic tools from the oldest layer of soil were discovered at Shangchen Village of Lantian County, northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
2018 October 15, Xuefeng Sun, Huayu Lu, Shejiang Wang, Xinghua Xu, Qingxuan Zeng, Xuehe Lu, Chengqiu Lu, Wenchao Zhang, Xiaojian Zhang, Robin Dennell, “Hominin distribution in glacial-interglacial environmental changes in the Qinling Mountains range, central China”, in Quaternary Science Reviews[5], volume 198, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 48:
According to the most recent reports, the earliest evidence of hominins in Asia is in the Shangchen site in Lantian in the northern Qinling Mountains with, and the age range is 2.12—1.26 Ma (Zhu et al., 2018).
2019 August 29, Zhaoyu Zhu, Weiwen Huang, Yi Wu, Shifan Qiu, Zhiguo Rao, Shixia Yang, Yamei Hou, Jiubing Xie, Jiangwei Han, Shuqing Fu, Tingping Ouyang, Houyun Zhou, Shasha Peng, Robin Dennell, “New progress in the geochronology of hominin relics in loess strata of the Chinese Loess Plateau”, in Chinese Science Bulletin[6], volume 64, number 25, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on November 4, 2024:
At the same time, the earliest hominin evidence outside Africa came from our newly found 2.12-million-year old[sic – meaning year-old] stone tools, which were found at Shangchen, a paleolithic locality, in Lantian County in the southern margin of the Chinese Loess Plateau.
