Ni’adi Site
Nwya Devu is a high-altitude archaeological site on the Tibetan Plateau located in the eastern Changtang region of Tibet. At around 4,600 m above sea level, Nwya Devu is the highest known archaeological site from the Paleolithic and provides evidence for one of the earliest known presences of humans at a high-altitude site, at around 40,000-30,000 BP.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: Paleolithic archaeological site in Xainza, Nagqu. Tibet, China
- Also known as: “Newa Devu”, “Ni’ade yizhi”, and “Nwya Devu”
Ni’adi Site
- Categories: cultural heritage of China, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Nagqu, Tibet, Southwest China, China, East Asia, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.47207° or 31° 28′ 19″ northLongitude
88.80637° or 88° 48′ 23″ eastOpen location code
8M3CFRC4+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 13359878705OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q60786755
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Tibetan—“Ni’adi Site” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “尼阿底”
- Chinese: “尼阿底遗址”
- Spanish: “Nwya Devu”
- Tibetan: “ཉ་དེའུ་གནའ་ཤུལ།”
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