Traces of an ancient advanced civilization have been found

The researchers dated three samples of animal bones found during the original excavations conducted in 1963. The bones were shown to have been worked by humans, as evidenced by cut marks. Radiocarbon methods dated the main Shiyu cultural layer to between 45,800 and 43,200 years ago.

Analysis of fossils and stone tool wear has shown that the Shiyu culture was a horsemen (“horse hunters”) who hunted animals with throwing projectiles and also carried out artificial selection by culling adults of ungulate mammals.