Earliest site of coal fuel found in Xinjiang

China Daily ^ | Friday, August 14, 2015 | Xinhua

[SunkenCiv]

Photo taken on Aug 10, 2015 shows the excavation site of Jiren Taigoukou Ruins in Qialege'e village in Nilka county in Ili Valley, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region. Archaeologists here found the earliest site where coal was used as fuel by human beings. The discovery, which indicates human beings had been using coal as fuel 3,500 years ago, is 1,000 years earlier than previous finds. [Photo/Xinhua]

[SunkenCiv]

Photo taken on Aug 10, 2015 shows a pottery ware excavated from Jiren Taigoukou Ruins in Qialege'e village in Nilka county in Ili Valley, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region.[Photo/Xinhua]

[SunkenCiv]

400,000 year old spears found in an German coal mine!
reinep.wordpress.com | 07-04-2010 | Staff
Posted on 10/11/2010 6:38:35 AM PDT by Red Badger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2605262/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks SteveH.

[umgud]

So the Chinese were some of the earliest polluters?

[MarvinStinson]

Amazing stuff.

[Mastador1]

Did they find evidence of melamine there also? The Chinese love to add melamine to everything.

[dsrtsage]

No melamine, but an unusual amount of mono sodium glutamate

[fieldmarshaldj]

Looks like Colorado.

[hondact200]

Couldn’t be melamine and MSG there were no scientists around yet to screw up everything. probably traces of Moo Gai Pan will be found or Mongolian barbecue.

[rmlew]

While this area is often thought of as the homeland of Turks (especially by the Tien Shien mountains), that wasn’t who was living there 3,500 years ago. Do we know of a people living in that region preceding the Indo-European Yuezhi?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuezhi

[SunkenCiv]

I doubt it. One of the things about ancestry in general is, 100 years is a long time. A little time spent doing genealogy shows just how much gets lost in that interval, even in a family that is heavy on oral tradition (like both of mine are). The waves of invasion that entered Europe and the Near East from the steppe were very different from previous ones, for the most part (most were Indo-European, so the languages were more or less related; and the Scythians and Sarmatians were ‘cousins’) and rolled in as a consequence of the natural heartbeat of natural climate change.