Assemblages of Stone Artifacts in the Region of Shuiyang River, South China: LCTs and Model 2

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Most scholars supported that there were only choppers or chopping tools in East Asia among Paleolithic time, while in the west side of the old continent the innovation of technology is obvious. In China, archaeologists have already found some important regions which are characterized with large cutting tools such as handaxes, cleavers, picks, and knives during recent years, including Bose Basin, Luonan Basin, Danjiangkou Reservoir Region, and Dingcun Site. In the region of Shuiyang River, we have surveyed and excavated several sites which buried on the second or third terrace, such as Chenshan Site, Maozhushan Site, Guanshan Site, Wulipeng Locality and so on. We successfully separate a small amount of large cutting tools from the whole assemblages of stone artifacts buried in vermicular red earth. In this paper, we will analyze these lithics discovered in this region. We will also try to explain why such large cutting tools appeared in this region in Middle Pleistocene.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 23124