On 29 April, China released a list of its top 10 archaeological discoveries of 2025, highlighting how these findings allow a better understanding of the people, traditions and innovations that shaped both the nation’s past and the profound history of humanity. The annual list, which is considered one of the highest honours in the field of archaeology in China, was prepared by top-notch scholars from across the country and jointly released by the Chinese Society of Cultural Relics and China Cultural Relics News. Among the top 10 is the Changbai Mountain Palaeolithic site group in eastern Jilin province, which covers 38,600 square miles and boasts more than 1,000 locations from where stone tools have been unearthed. The discovery alters the impression that only small nomadic groups passed through the region in the Palaeolithic period, said Xu Ting, an archaeology professor at Liaoning University and secretary of the project in Jilin.…