Chinese archaeologists have uncovered the oldest signs of human activity on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau at about 4,600 meters above sea level, showcasing the astonishing resilience of early humans who inhabited one of Earth's harshest environments tens of thousands of years earlier than expected.

　　中国考古学家近期发现了在青藏高原4600米海拔的位置最早的人类活动痕迹，在这千百万年来地球上最艰苦的生存环境出现展示了早起人类惊人的生存能力也远早于预期时间

　　Researchers from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have found more than 3,600 stone artifacts made from black slate at Nwya Devu, which is in the Changthang region of the Tibet autonomous region, about 300 kilometers northwest of the capital, Lhasa.

　　脊椎动物古生物学研究所和中国科学院古人类学的科研人员，在距离西藏自治区首府拉萨西北部300多公里羌塘地区发现了3600件由黑色板岩制成的时期

　　Most of the tools that were found underground were made around 30,000 to 40,000 years ago during the Stone Age. The toolmakers, whose identity remains a mystery, crafted blades and arrowlike flakes of stone, some of which are up to 20 centimeters long.

　　多数的在地下被挖掘出来的工具都是出自于30000到40000年前的石器时代.工具制造师的身份还是个迷，用石头做成刀片样式和箭一样的薄片，其中一些石器达到了20厘米长

　　This makes the site the oldest and highest-altitude evidence of human occupation on "the roof the world", one of the monikers given to the highest plateau on Earth, with an average altitude of 4,000 meters, according to the study published on Friday in the journal Science.

　　根据周五在科学杂志上发布的研究文章显示，这一发现让平均高度4000米有世界屋顶制成的世界全球最高高原有了新的最古老的也是最高的人类居住证明

　　Due to its high altitude, thin air, lack of resources and extremely cold weather, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is one of the last regions to be colonized by early humans in Asia, and it remains one of the planet's least-populated areas.

　　由于高度的问题，空气稀薄，资源稀少和极冷的空气青藏高原是亚洲内最后一个被人类开拓的区域，也是全球最后居住的区域

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