A Preliminary Report of the 2021 Excavation at the Taiziling Locality in Jizhou County, Tianjin City

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The Taiziling locality, buried in the second terrace near the Prince Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty is located in the Sungezhuang village, Jizhou County, Tianjin City, which was discovered in 2005 and excavated in October 2021, covering an area of 50m2. In this excavation, over 100 artifacts were unearthed. The lithic assemblage includes cores, flakes, chunks, debris, and tools, with the representative tool being scrapers, which is widely found in the remains of Paleolithic sites in northern China. The raw materials of the lithic artifacts were quartzite, quartz, flint, etc. As shown by the characteristics of the cores and flakes from Taiziling locality, two distinct technological assemblages are identified. One is flake technology, which is the local and dominant technological assemblage in North China, characterized by free-hand core reduction without preparation and simple tool modification. The other is microblade technology, which is represented by microblade cores with working surfaces for the production of micro-blades. The Taiziling locality provides important data for the study of lithic techniques in the Late Pleistocene in North China as well as the cultural relationship between northern and northeastern China during the period.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37108.0