All my life the age of Australian Aboriginal culture has been pushed back, now maybe 60,000 years old. It is, we are constantly assured, "the world's oldest culture".
Well… no. Even if we accept that the age of aboriginal culture is being pushed further and further back, Chinese culture is nearly twenty times longer.
That's by actual digging into the loess soils of the Yellow River basin, finding actual physical evidence, not just carbon-dated hand prints inside caves.
Note also the new and complex tools Chinese populations had even a million years ago.
ADDED: I don't mean the throw shade on aboriginal culture. But I do wish we'd stop harping on how old and ancient it is. That strikes me as condescending. At best. Well meaning, perhaps; condescending, still.
