The discovery of 3,700-year-old chariot tracks has pushed back the appearance of vehicles in China by 200 years, the country's media has reported.

"It advances the history of China's vehicle use up to the Xia Dynasty (2100 - 1600 BC)," said Xu Hong, who leads the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences' archaeological investigation team at the Erlitou archaeological site in Yanshi city, central Henan province.

The two parallel tracks were discovered on the grounds of a palace at the site, Xinhua news agency reported.

Erlitou, discovered in 1959, was the largest residential human settlement in China and east Asia nearly 4,000 years ago.

It boasts one of China's richest and earliest sites of palaces and bronze casting workshops.

Before the chariot discovery, the earliest vehicle traces known in China dated back to the early Shang Dynasty (1600 - 1100BC).

Because the distance between the two parallel tracks is only one metre, archaeologists believe the vehicle body of the chariot would have been much narrower than others found elsewhere in Henan, and was probably of special use.

It is unclear whether they are tracks of horse-drawn carriages, like those found in the Yin Ruins in Anyang, also in Henan.

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I do believe history will always be re-written and that new discoveries disproving that and revealing this as well as confirming those will always be made and that history will always be an open book. You can never be sure about anything!!! There will always be work for archeaologists hopefully like me. The history books will always be re-written!!!

whoever wins the wars writes the history books.

Its always those in power that decide whats going to go in the history books and its usually only what they like and want to hear. The truth about what really happened in the past may never be known but hopefully, we can stop fighting wars and allow equality, freedom and peace to reign so that what really happened is what is recorded in the history books. But until then it looks like history will always be skewed/manipulated by those in power!!!
lets make sure that we keep our own recors of what really happens so that the truth can really be told and understood by future generations. How will they judge us by the story the people in power come up with or the truth!!!

The chinese have invented many things, so why not one more