Bose (pronounced "Bo-seh"), China is the site of an ongoing cooperative research effort between the Smithsonian Institution and China's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology.

To the right, researchers dig a trench at the Bose Basin research site. Careful excavation of stone tool artifacts and control over the stratigraphy reveal a wealth of information about the early human inhabitants of Bose. The Bose Basin is yielding evidence of stone tools dating to just over 800,000 years ago, giving scientists insight into the technology of early humans in East Asia and how they were using it.

Rick Potts, Director of the Human Origins Program, and Hou Yamei, of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology in Beijing examine a tool cobble found during excavations at the Bose Basin site.

The research being conduceted at Bose has recently been featured in the journal Science.