Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China

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	Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China
	Kuman, Kathleen 1,2; Li, Chaorong 3,4; Li, Hao 1
	2014-11-01
发表期刊	JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
卷号	76 页码:129-153
文章类型	Article
摘要	Handaxe-bearing sites in China are currently known to occur in a number of alluvial basins, the best known being Dingcun, Bose and Luonan. Bose in the south and Luonan in central China on the northern margin of the Qinling Mountains are most familiar to English-speaking researchers. Here we document the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region (DRR) as another major area for large cutting tools (LCTs), located in central China on the southeastern edge of the Qinling Mountains. Large cutting tools are preserved in three terraces of the Han and Dan Rivers in Hubei and Henan Provinces, with dates from ca. 0.8 Ma (millions of years ago) (Terrace 4) to the first half of the Middle Pleistocene (Terrace 3), and possibly to the Late Pleistocene (Terrace 2). This paper reports on LCTs discovered in Terraces 3 and 2, with a majority from the older terrace (and one specimen from Terrace 4). Regional environments during the Middle Pleistocene were relatively warm, humid and stable. Despite the poor quality of raw materials (predominantly quartz phyllite and trachyte for the LCTs), good examples of both handaxes and cleavers are present, plus two types of picks. The LCT technology is compared and contrasted with other Asian industries and with the Acheulean. Overall the DRR LCTs show both technological and morphological similarities with Acheulean LCTs, with some differences that are mainly attributed to raw material properties, subsistence ecology, and 'cultural drift.' The DRR LCTs expand the range of morphological variability of the East Asian material and highlight the need for greater reliance on technological analysis and raw material evaluation for best comparison of Chinese assemblages with the Acheulean tradition. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
关键词	Early Palaeolithic Handaxes Cleavers Acheulean Hominid Dispersal Asia
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	EARLIER STONE-AGE ; BOSE BASIN ; HOMO-ERECTUS ; SOUTH CHINA ; MOVIUS LINE ; HOMININ OCCUPATIONS ; PALEOLITHIC SITES ; LOESS DEPOSITS ; HANDAXES ; GUANGXI
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000345185000011
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7401
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Univ Witwatersrand, Sch Geog Archaeol & Environm Studies, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa 2.Univ Witwatersrand, Evolutionary Studies Inst, ZA-2050 Johannesburg, South Africa 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kuman, Kathleen,Li, Chaorong,Li, Hao. Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China[J]. JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,2014,76:129-153.
APA	Kuman, Kathleen,Li, Chaorong,&Li, Hao.(2014).Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China.JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION,76,129-153.
MLA	Kuman, Kathleen,et al."Large cutting tools in the Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, central China".JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION 76(2014):129-153.