| 泥河湾盆地东谷坨遗址再发掘 |
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| 引用本文： | 侯亚梅,卫奇,冯兴无,林圣龙.泥河湾盆地东谷坨遗址再发掘[J].第四纪研究,1999,19(2):139. |
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| 作者姓名： | 侯亚梅 卫奇 冯兴无 林圣龙 |
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| 作者单位： | 中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所!北京,100044,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所!北京,100044,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所!北京,100044,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所!北京,100044 |
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| 基金项目： | 中国科学院古生物与古人类学科基础研究特别支持费!9627,9710 |
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| 摘 要： | 1997年东谷坨遗址出土的石制品,特别是其中的“东谷坨定型石核”迸一步肯定了该遗址石器工业的进步性,对全面认识泥河湾盆地旧石器时代早期文化具有重要意义。
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| 关 键 词： | 东谷坨定型石核 旧石器 泥河湾 |
| 收稿时间： | 1998-12-02 |
| 修稿时间： | 1999-01-07 |
RE-EXCAVATION AT DONGGUTUO IN THE NIHEWAN BASIN,NORTH CHINA |
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| Hou Yamei, Wei Qi, Feng Xingwu, Lin Shenglong.RE-EXCAVATION AT DONGGUTUO IN THE NIHEWAN BASIN,NORTH CHINA[J].Quaternary Sciences,1999,19(2):139. |
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| Authors: | Hou Yamei Wei Qi Feng Xingwu Lin Shenglong |
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| Institution: | Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044 |
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| Abstract: | Following the Xiaochangliang Site, the discovery and initial excavation ofDenggutuo Site in 1981 further established the Early Pleistocene human activities inthe Nihewan Basin and caused much attention of home and abroad. The age ofXiaochangliang and Denggutuo is respectively 1.67Ma B. P. and 1Ma B. P. based onpaleomagnetic dating. A collaborated Sino-USA project for Donggutuo Site had beencatried out in 1991 and 1992. The excavation was mainly made on T1, which is oneof the five trenches excavated in 1981 and is the most productive excavated area inuncovering archaeological materials. Thirty square meters was totally dug in the twofield seasons. The excavation went down at 5cm interval for each spit. It was stoppedat Spit 12, Spit 21 and Spit 23 in the end of 1992 excavation. A new excavationwas continuously undertaken for the area of Spit 12 at Donggutuo in 1997.The cultural layers at Denggutuo T1 consist of A,B,C,D and E. All matarialsfound in 1981 were from all these five layers. As more careful digging method wasused, excavated work in 1991～1992 and 1997 here has only reached Layer B. Stoneartifacts and fragmentary bones are exposed at each spit and appears more at Layer Bthan Layer A. There are 702 stone artifacts and 169 bone fossils from the short fieldseason of 1997. Stone artifacts are chiefly made on various colors of flints which arerelatively determined as three different standards in their quality. Simply to say, theflints in high quality have pure color, homogeneous structure, and are smooth intouching. Some of them are quite transparent. The middle quality flints look oftenmixed colors because of some joints of rock structure. They are less homogeneousand rougher of the touch. The lower quality flint of anifacts are badly homogeneous,more rock joints inside and coarse in touching. These flints were got from the nearbyarea of the site. Some other materials such as siliceous limestone, quartzite, opal andcrystal were also used for making tools. Typologically they include cores, flakes,points, denticulares, burins, end scrapers, side scrapers and northes. Points and burinshave higher proportion in the tool assemblage and are somehow nice retouched in theimplements.The most significant record from the small scale of 1997 excavation atDenggutuo is the discovery of ten prepared cores whose shapes were clearlypredetermined by the makers. They vary in size and material but are rather identicalby their shapes. Definite prepared flat Platforms are the typical character of these cores.It is normal here to prepare platforms secondarily or even more bines as corereduction proceeds. Flaking occurs mainly on one lognitudinal side. Before deeperresearch and understanding on these cores, it is appropriate to choose"Denggutuo-shaped cores" as a preliminary name for this particular group. Details ofresearch on these new discovered "Donggutuo-shaped cores" will be presented soon inanother article.The appearance of "Donggutuo-shaped cores" argues against the opinion of thatDenggutuo artifacts were simply made by casual behavior. They indicate that thecapability of Denggutuo people in coping with their natural environment, for examplewith raw materials, was much underestimated in the past. On the other hand, theDonggutuo stone assemblages are still dominated by the Early Paleolithic technology,even though it contains quite advanced shaped-cores and has some other nicespecimens. So it is important that we do not need to overemphasize its advancement.We believe that Donggutuo is potential to provide us some more interesting clues inunderstanding the complexity of early human behavioral evolution. |
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| Keywords: | Donggutuo-shaped cores Paleolithic Nihewan |
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