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Xujiayao
40.1006° N, 113.9775° E
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Xujiayao, located in the Nihewan Basin in China, is an early Late Pleistocene paleoanthropological site famous for its archaic hominin fossils.
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Iron Age
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Discovery
1974
IVPP excavations
1976–1979
Hebei Provincial excavations
2007–2008
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