Mobility, Land Use, and Technological Organization at the Site of Yangshang, Gansu, China

Summary

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

The excavation in Yangshang site generated a high-resolution record in the West Loess Plateau of China, and demonstrated that ancient human occupied this region at least since MIS7. In looking for evidence of possible changes in the mobility, land use, and organization of lithic technology that may have been concurrent with the paleoenvironment changes identified in Yangshang, we concentrate on three lines of the evidence based on the lithic and fauna data revealed from L6-8 which contain large enough database to conduct necessary statistical analysis: typological analysis provides comparable data on lithic types across different periods which may reveal the provisioning stately among each main cultural layers; the lithic raw material economic analysis will focus on the variation of raw material frequencies and the consumption of cores and flake blanks; artifacts’ volumetric densities from the sampled excavation units and vertical stratigraphic distribution intensities will provide information about the expansion and frequency of occupation during different periods. The primary aim of these attribute/metric-based analysis is to investigate the long-term evolutionary process in terms of the possible adaptive variation in stone tool manufacture and use patterns occurring over many thousands of years.

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

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Abstract Id(s): 24332