“…Loess deposits in China are divided into typical loess, which occurs on the Loess Plateau of Central China, and atypical loess, which occurs in other areas, such in the Qinling Mountain Range, in the Xiashu loess, and in Quaternary reticulated red clay in the lower drainage of the Yangtze River (Liu et al, 1985;Xiong et al, 2000;Sun et al, 2017a;. Accurate age estimates are available for most palaeolithic sites in the loess regions in North and Central China (e.g., Chen et al, 1984;An et al, 1990;Xiao et al, 2002;Yang et al, 2005;Nian et al, 2014b;Wang et al, 2005Wang et al, , 2014Wang et al, , 2016Nian et al, 2016;Lu et al, 2007Lu et al, , 2011aLu et al, , 2011bSun et al, 2012Sun et al, , 2013Sun et al, , 2014Sun et al, , 2016Sun et al, , 2017bSun et al, , 2018Lu et al, 2017;Wang et al, 2019). However, dating information is lacking for sites buried in reticulated red clay.…”