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Although the past decade of Sino-American rapprochement has witnessed the intensification of interest among Western prehistorians in the archaeology of China, nonetheless, the Pleistocene cultural sequence of that country remains poorly understood by non-Chinese specialists.
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Olsen, J.W. (1987). Recent Developments in the Upper Pleistocene Prehistory of China. In: Soffer, O. (eds) The Pleistocene Old World. Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1817-0_9
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