Converging lines of evidence suggest that, during the late Archean, Earth completed its transition from a stagnant-lid to a plate tectonics regime, although how and when this transition occurred is debated. Here, we present a Neoarchean high-pressure Kyanite-garnet-bearing felsic granulites of the Yinshan Block, North China Craton, which equilibrated at 1.32 ~ 1.42 GPa and 855 ~ 905 °C. Laser ablation−inductively coupled plasma−mass spectrometry U-Pb zircon geochronology indicate that these assemblages grew ca. 2483 Ma. The thermal regimes required to generate these metamorphic conditions are typical of collisional orogenesis, and suggest that the continental lithosphere was capable of supporting crustal thickening to 45–50 km. Such crustal thickening provides supporting evidence that tectonic regimes similar to modern Earth–style tectonics were in operation at the Archean-Proterozoic transition.