The Ordosian culture, sometimes referred to as the Ordos culture,''PALEOANTHROPOLOGY AND PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA'', Editors Wu Rukang, John W Olsen, p. 187, 2009, Left Coast Press, , 9781598744583
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, in the south of the

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of the

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, from the

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, 1963), p.172.Silberman, Neil Asher; Bauer, Alexander A., eds., ''The Oxford Companion to Archaeology'', p. 297, 2012, Oxford University Press, , 9780199735785
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/ref> The points and sides of their tools indicate a "Moustero- Levalloisian" element. They seemed to have a masterful knowledge of Upper Palaeolithic technology, producing blades as much as fifteen centimeters long.

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*Kozłowski, J. K., "The problem of the so-called Ordos culture in the light of the Palaeolithic finds from northern China and southern Mongolia", 1982, ''Folia Quaternaria'' 39: 63-99 {{DEFAULTSORT:Ordosian Culture Archaeology of Inner Mongolia Archaeological cultures of Central Asia Paleolithic cultures of Asia Archaeological cultures of China Paleolithic China