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But he expects Xuchang and others to keep protesting and face similar measures, including the use of re-education through labor camps, he says.
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Niu Shupei/Xinhua/Zumapress.com A child looked at a giant mooncake in a store in Xuchang, central China's Henan province, on Sept. 1.
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On Jan. 28, as the rest of the country prepared for Chinese New Year festivities, a large crowd of Xuchang villagers confronted more than 100 men armed with sticks and shovels that Guan says were sent by a developer to enforce its land claim.
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"Our village can only be harmonious if the land issue is resolved," says Guan, who participates in nightly patrols to watch for strangers entering Xuchang.
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Free apartments will be built nearby, where Xuchang villagers can open small-scale bag-processing operations on the ground floor, he says.
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The Xuchang ruins made headlines in foreign media in January when State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced that Chinese archaeologists had found a human skull dating back at least 80,000 years in the ruins last December.
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Besides the skull, more than 30,000 animal fossils, and stone and bone artifacts were found in the Xuchang ruins over the past two years.
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Li has been leading an eight-member archaeological team doing excavation and related research on lake-based ruins in Xuchang, central China's Henan Province, in recent years.
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"Through excavation, we are confident that these hematite were deliberately brought to the Xuchang ruins from afar by ancient people, as Xuchang does not produce such minerals," said Li.
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According to Li, this month, their excavation team found from the soil strata dating back 15,000 years, or the late Paleolithic Era, at the Xuchang ruins more than 20 pieces of hematite, one of iron oxides commonly used as a dyestuff, alongside three dozen thin instruments made of animal tooth enamel, plus seven needles made of the upper cheek tooth enamel of a rhinoceros sub-species now extinct.
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