Newly discovered Palaeolithic artefacts from loess deposits and their ages in Lantian, central China-论文.pdf

Chin．Sci．Bul1．(2014)59(7)：651-661 csb．scichina．com D0I10．1007／s11434—013—0105—5 www．springer．com／scp NewlydiscoveredPalaeolithicartefactsfrom loessdeposits andtthneeiirraggeeSsin‘LaannUtiaann，．cceennttrraallChina ShejiangWang。HuayuLu。HongyanZhang ‘ XuefengSun’ShuangwenYi·YingyongChen 。 GaikeZhang ·LudaXing ·W eigangSun Received：24June2013／Accepted：6November2013／Publishedonline：15January 2014 ◎ ScienceChinaPressandSpringer—VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2014 Abstract Eight new Palaeolithic open．air sites were resultssuggestthata buried lithicartefactlayeratthe identifiedand770stoneartefactswerecollectedfrom 2009 Diaozhaisite spansapproximately 70-30ka．Thelithic tO20l1intheLantianareaoftheBaheRivervalley．central assemblageanalysissuggeststhatthestoneartefactswere China．Because the famousHomo erectusfossilswere madeoflocalDebbles／cObb1essuchasgreywacke，quartz， unearthedattheGongwanglingandChenjiawo1ocalities， sandstoneand igneousrocks．Themainpercussiontech— andmorethan30Palaeolithicopen．．airsiteswereinvesti-— niquesthatwereusedweredirecthardhammerpercussion gated inthe 1960sinthisregion．thecatchmentofBahe and bi．polar techniques．The lithic artefacts comprise Riverisregardedasoneofthemostimportanthomininsites hammerstones，cores，flakes，retouchedtoolsandflaking from thelateearlyPleistocenetothemiddlePleistocene． debris．Acheulian—typelargecuttingtools(LCTs)suchas Theseeightnewlydiscoveredopen．airsitesarelocatedat handaxes．picksandcleaverswereindentifiedintheLan— thesecond(n= 6)，third = 1)orhigherterraces(g／= 1) tianregionaswel1．ThisisthefirsttimeAcheulian-type oftheBaheRiver．TheDiaozhaisectiononthesecondter— LCTsrfom thelateP1eistocenehavebeenidentifiedinthis racewassampledindetail．Twosampleswerecollectedfor region．ThisstudydistinguishesagegapsbetweenW estern op