First discovery of a bone handaxe in China

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.022

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	First discovery of a bone handaxe in China
	Wei, Guangbiao 1; He, Cundin 1; Hu, Yue 2; Yu, Kefu 3; Chen, Shaokun 1,2; Pang, Libo 1; Wu, Yan 1; Huang, Wanbo 1,2; Yuan, Wenge 4
刊名	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
	2017-04-01
卷号	434 页码:121-128
关键词	Bone Handaxe Mandible Of Stegodon Orientalis Middle Pleistocene Chongqing China
DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.022
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	Handaxes, the characteristic tool of the Acheulean industrial complex, are predominantly made of stone. Handaxes made of bone are much less common. Only a few have been reported, from sites in Africa, Europe and western Asia. In this study we report a bone handaxe from Chongqing, southwest China, which represents the first bone handaxe ever discovered in China or any other part of East Asia. Typologically, it is somewhat inconsistent with the classic Acheulean handaxe morphology and is therefore classified as a proto-handaxe in this study. The bone from which the handaxe was made, which is now fossilized, has been dated to -170 ka based on a U-series technique. The handaxe was manufactured from the mandible of an individual of the stegodontid Stegodon orientalis, a typical member of the Middle Pleistocene Ailuropoda-Stegodon fauna (sensu stricto) of southern China. This artifact represents the earliest evidence for a tradition of bone handaxe manufacture in East Asia, and provides important evidence regarding the lifestyle, technology, and environmental surroundings of the humans that occupied the upstream region of the Yangtze River during the Middle Pleistocene. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
WOS关键词	MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; PANXIAN-DADONG ; EARLY HUMANS ; GUIZHOU ; ISRAEL ; CAVE
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000399509100014
资助机构	Chongqing Social Science Planning Project (the Preliminary Study of the Yumidong Cave site)(2014YBLS116) ; Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(laZDEW-03) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(41202017 ; 41202257 ; 41372001)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://124.16.247.212/handle/311034/7444]
专题	古脊椎动物与古人类研究所_图书馆1
作者单位	1.China Three Gorges Museum, Chongqing Three Gorges Inst Paleoanthropol, Chongqing 400015, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, South China Sea Inst Oceanol, CAS Key Lab Marginal Sea Geol, Guangzhou 510301, Guangdong, Peoples R China 4.Dept Cultural Relic Management Jiulongpo Dist, Chongqing 401329, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wei, Guangbiao,He, Cundin,Hu, Yue,et al. First discovery of a bone handaxe in China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2017,434:121-128.
APA	Wei, Guangbiao.,He, Cundin.,Hu, Yue.,Yu, Kefu.,Chen, Shaokun.,...&Yuan, Wenge.(2017).First discovery of a bone handaxe in China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,434,121-128.
MLA	Wei, Guangbiao,et al."First discovery of a bone handaxe in China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 434(2017):121-128.