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Jiahu

Early Neolithic settlement in the Yellow River valley that yielded rice farming, some of the earliest graphic signs found in East Asia carved on tortoise shells, and the world's oldest known playable musical instruments.

Dated events and their evidence

• 7,000 BCE mainstream
  earliest occupation source
• 6,600 BCE mainstream
  carved bone flutes, oldest known playable musical instruments source
• 6,400 BCE mainstream
  Jiahu symbols carved on tortoise shells, among the earliest graphic signs in East Asia source

Where

33.6130° N, 113.6670° E

Sources

• https://factsanddetails.com/china/cat2/sub1/entry-5370.html
• https://www.archania.org/wiki/The_Symbolic_World/Proto-writing/Jiahu_symbols

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