Niuheliang: The Ancient Discovery That Pushed China’s Civilization Back 1,000 Years
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The episode discusses the significance of the Niuheliang discovery in reshaping the understanding of China's ancient civilization.
Niuheliang: The Ancient Discovery That Pushed China’s Civilization Back 1,000 Years Today, we’ll talk about Niuheliang, an ancient remote landscape north of the Great Wall that’s rediscovery transformed our understanding of China’s earliest civilization by challenging the long-held belief that it had emerged only from the great river valleys. For a long time, the story of Chinese civilization seemed settled. According to conventional wisdom, its origins lay firmly in the great river valleys o...
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