{"id":145769,"date":"2026-02-07T22:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145769"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:00:11","slug":"how-old-is-chinese-civilisation-it-really-dates-back-8000-years-an-archaeologist-argues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=145769","title":{"rendered":"How old is Chinese civilisation? It really dates back 8,000 years, an archaeologist argues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA noted archaeologist is challenging conventional wisdom on one of the world\u2019s oldest cultures, arguing that Chinese civilisation has a recorded history stretching back 8,000 years \u2013 three millennia beyond the widely accepted benchmark.<br \/>\nAn article published late last year on the official portal Chinese Social Sciences Net made the bold new claim that the emergence of astronomy should be seen as the starting point of Chinese civilisation.<br \/>\nThe author was Feng Shi, a member of the Chinese Academy&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3342760\/how-old-chinese-civilisation-archaeologist-argues-it-really-dates-back-8000-years?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostA noted archaeologist is challenging conventional wisdom on one of the world\u2019s oldest cultures, arguing that Chinese civilisation has a recorded history stretching back&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}