List of Paleolithic sites in China

class=notpageimage|
Map of China showing sites of Paleolithic China (clickable map)
The Stone Age
↑ before Homo (Pliocene)

Paleolithic

Lower Paleolithic
Early Stone Age
Homo
Control of fire
Stone tools
Middle Paleolithic
Middle Stone Age
Homo neanderthalensis
Homo sapiens
Recent African origin of modern humans
Upper Paleolithic
Later Stone Age
Behavioral modernity, Atlatl,
Origin of the domestic dog

Epipalaeolithic

Natufian

Mesolithic

Microliths, Bow and Arrows, Canoes
Tahunian
Heavy Neolithic
Shepherd Neolithic
Trihedral Neolithic
Pre-Pottery Neolithic

Neolithic

Neolithic Revolution
Domestication
Khiamian culture
Pottery Neolithic
Pottery
↓ Chalcolithic
Part of a series on the
History of China
History of China in Chinese characters and seal script
Prehistoric
Yellow, Yangtze, and Liao civilization
Ancient
  • Xia (c. 2070 – c. 1600 BCE)
  • Shang (c. 1600 – c. 1046 BCE)
Late Shang (c. 1250 – c. 1046 BCE)
  • Zhou (c. 1046 – c. 256 BCE)
Western Zhou (1046–771 BCE)
Eastern Zhou (771–256 BCE)
Spring and Autumn (c. 770 – c. 476 BCE)
Warring States (475–221 BCE)
Imperial
  • Qin (221–207 BCE)
  • Han (206 BCE – 220 CE)
Chu–Han Contention (206–202 BCE)
Western Han (202 BCE – 9 CE)
Xin (9–23 CE)
Eastern Han (25–220 CE)
Wei, Shu, and Wu
  • Jin (266–420)
   
Western Jin (266–316)
Eastern Jin (317–420)
  • Sui (581–618)
   
Northern Song (960–1127)
Southern Song (1127–1279)
Modern
   
Related articles

This is a list of Paleolithic sites in China. They are sorted in chronological order from the earliest founding[clarification needed] to the latest: