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An engraved artifact from Shuidonggou, an Early Late Paleolithic Site in Northwest China
Peng Fei1,2; Gao Xing1; Wang HuiMin3; Chen FuYou1; Liu DeCheng1; Pei ShuWen1; [email protected]
2012-12-01
发表期刊CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN
ISSN1001-6538
卷号57期号:35页码:4594-4599
文章类型Article
摘要Cognition and symbolic thinking are viewed as important features of modern human behavior. Engraved objects are seen as a hallmark of cognition and symbolism, and even as evidence for language. Accumulated evidences including engraved bones, ochre, ostrich eggshells and stone artifacts were unearthed from Africa, Europe, Levant even Siberia Paleolithic sites. But the archaeological evidence for this, including beads, ornaments, burials, performed objects and engraved objects, is rarely discovered in the Pleistocene of East Asia. The present paper reports an engraved stone object unearthed in the Early Late Paleolithic levels about 30 ka BP at the Shuidonggou site (SDG) in northwestern China. It was unearthed in the 1980's excavation from Lower culture unit of SDG1 but was identified in 2011 when the first author of this article observed the collection from the 1980's excavations stored in the Institute of Archaeology of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region for further detailed lithic analysis. This lithic artifact is the first engraved non-organic object of the Paleolithic period found in China. In order to clarify the details of the incisions and to document the human intentional modifications, we used a KEYENCE VHX-600 Digital Microscope to measure and observe all the incisions in 3-dimensional perspective. Comparing the natural cracks and analyzing many details of the incisions, we argue that incisions on this stone artifact are the result of intentional behaviors by ancient humans. Also, we exclude the possible other causes including animal-induced damages, post-depositional phenomenon and unintentional by-products. Combining all these features, we suggest that the incisions were made by an intentional behavior and were probably of a non-utilitarian character. Because the nature of most other engraved objects in China is debate, we cannot get a clear scenario of the emergence and progress of modern human behavior in North China. But we infer the possible existence of a counting or recording system, or other symbolic behaviors, which reflect considerably evolved cognitive capacities or modern human behavior in the Early Late Paleolithic of East Asia.
关键词Modern Human Behavior Engraved Artifact Cognition And Symbolism Shuidonggou Early Late Paleolithic
WOS标题词Science & Technology
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关键词[WOS]MODERN HUMAN-BEHAVIOR ; SOUTH-AFRICA ; ORIGIN ; REVOLUTION ; EMERGENCE ; ASIA ; ART ; EVOLUTION ; LANGUAGE ; CRITIQUE
收录类别SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI
语种英语
WOS研究方向Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号WOS:000312275400009
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文献类型期刊论文
条目标识符http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4237
专题中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后)
通讯作者[email protected]
作者单位1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Lab Human Evolut, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Grad Univ, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China
3.Inst Archaeol Ningxia Hui Autonomous Reg, Yinchuan 750001, Peoples R China
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Peng Fei,Gao Xing,Wang HuiMin,et al. An engraved artifact from Shuidonggou, an Early Late Paleolithic Site in Northwest China[J]. CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,2012,57(35):4594-4599.
APA Peng Fei.,Gao Xing.,Wang HuiMin.,Chen FuYou.,Liu DeCheng.,[email protected].(2012).An engraved artifact from Shuidonggou, an Early Late Paleolithic Site in Northwest China.CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN,57(35),4594-4599.
MLA Peng Fei,et al."An engraved artifact from Shuidonggou, an Early Late Paleolithic Site in Northwest China".CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN 57.35(2012):4594-4599.
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