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The Donghulin Woman from western Beijing: 14C age and an associated compound shell necklace
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 January 2015
Abstract
A female skeleton, whose 14C age is about 8540 BP (c. 7500 cal BC), from the basal part of the Holocene loess at Fenpo Gully, west of the village of Donghulin, Mentougou district of Beijing, was associated with a shell necklace restored from 68 gastropod shells. This unprecedented find also contributes new environmental information.
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