Tang Huisheng

• Hebei Normal University

A week-long expedition of attempting microerosion dating of petroglyphs was conducted in Garze Tibet Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan Province, and Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai Province, in western China in August 2019. Zoomorphic petroglyphs dominate the extensive rock art of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. A total of twelve petroglyph si...

A reconsideration of the application of 230Th/234U analysis to thin accretionary skins of re-precipitated carbonate to secure minimum or maximum ages for physically related rock art suggests that the controversy it has created can be resolved. A program to test the method’s results indicates that such calcite skins tend to yield age estimates that...

Surveys conducted in June and October 2015 in the Chinese regions of Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Guangxi and Henan have focused on the scientific potential of numerous rock art sites to yield forensic and dating evidence. The work was a continuation of the two successful 2014 campaigns in several provinces. It resulted in the first rock art...

This paper presents the earliest three finds of wooden boats reported from China, the oldest of which is of an age similar to the oldest found in Europe and Africa. The circumstances of their discovery are briefly discussed. These finds show collectively that logboats precede Neolithic technology in three continents.

A survey conducted in November 2014 in Xianju County, China, has profitably utilised the soundly dated rock inscription Wufubei for microerosion calibration. A small team has managed to secure a calibration curve and eleven age estimates from petroglyphs of Xiaofangyan and Songlongshan sites, which are two of the nine petroglyph sites known in Xian...

In 2009, a new microlithic site in the Yeniugou Valley, in the vicinity of the entrance to the northern Qingzang Plateau in the Kunlun Mountains of Qinghai Province, was discovered by archaeologists. The site is as high as 3800 m a.s.l, and has many stone artifacts and two well preserved hearths. Three AMS14C dates, determined from ember taken from...