Discovery of circa 115,000-year-old bone retouchers at Lingjing, Henan, China

• Luc Doyon ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc Doyon, Francesco d’Errico

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: doyon.luc@gmail.com

  Affiliations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5199 –PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac CEDEX, France, Départment d’anthropologie, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Canada

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7163-6186

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• Zhanyang Li ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Institute of Cultural Heritage, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong, China, Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhenzhou, Henan, China

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• Hao Li ,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China, CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, Beijing Municipality, China

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• Francesco d’Errico

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luc Doyon, Francesco d’Errico

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, UMR 5199 –PACEA, Université de Bordeaux, Pessac CEDEX, France, SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour (SapienCE), University of Bergen, Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

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