Excavated microliths on the Tibetan Plateau display mosaic features of both northern Chinese tool culture and the Tibetan Paleoliths [1] During the mid-Holocene, Neolithic immigrants from northern China mixed with the original inhabitants, although a degree of genetic continuity with the Paleolithic settlers still exists.
[1] There is some genetic continuity between the initial Paleolithic inhabitants and the modern populations on the Tibetan Plateau.
Genetic studies suggest that Epipaleolithic and Neolithic immigrants from northern China moved to Tibetan plateau during mid-Holocene.
[2] Evidence of neolithic Tibetan inhabitants and settlements have been found mainly "in river valleys in the south and east of the country".
[3] Findings in Nyingchi culturally resemble the Neolithic Qijia culture in Gansu and Qinghai, while findings in Qamdo resemble the Dadunzi site in Yunnan, although there may be some connections with the Neolithic culture of the Yellow River valley.