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Modern humans in Northeast Asia

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A multidisciplinary study of the Shiyu archaeological site in northern China reveals a complex human behavioural record that currently is the oldest of its kind in Northeast Asia and provides insight into the nature of the northward dispersal of modern humans across Asia.

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Fig. 1: Key representative sites related to the earliest dispersal of modern humans across Northeast Asia.

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