Use-wear evidence confirms the earliest hafted chipped-stone adzes of Upper Palaeolithic in northern China  

作　　者：ZHANG XiaoLing1,2,3, SHEN Chen1,2,4 GAO Xing1,2 CHEN FuYou1,2 & WANG ChunXue1,2,3 1Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China 2Laboratory of Human Evolution and Archaeometry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China 3Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 4The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada 

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2010年第3期268-275,共8页

基　　金：supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB806400);Specific Basic Research Program of Ministry of Sciences and Technology of China (Grant No. 2007FY110200);National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40502006 and J0630965);CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams;Henry Luce Foundation Fellowship for East and Southeast Asian Archaeology and Early History (ACLS);Royal Ontario Museum Research Grant

摘　　要：Chipped-stone "adze-shaped objects" (ASOs) were identified from a few Upper Palaeolithic sites in northern China. Its morpho- logical form resembles to ground-stone type-specific adze, but the function of the ASO has never been assessed. The objective of this study is to investigate the use function of this particular tool type recovered from the Hutouliang site in the Nihewan Basin of northern China. In this study, the lithic use-wear analysis is applied to examining microscopically edge-damages and sur- face-rounding of the tools in order to assess how they were employed. The result suggests that the ASO might have been used as woodworking tools with a hafted shaft, providing evidence for the appearance of the earliest hafted chipped-stone adzes prior to 10000 years ago in northern China. This study also demonstrates that the use-wear technique is an innovated and effective analytic appraoch to the study of stone tool functions that has been conventionally treated by typo-technological analyses. Stone tool use-patterns revealed by use-wear evidence would shed new insights on prehistoric adaptive strategies of modern human in northern China.Chipped-stone ＂adze-shaped objects＂ （ASOs） were identified from a few Upper Palaeolithic sites in northern China. Its morphological form resembles to ground-stone type-specific adze, but the function of the ASO has never been assessed. The objective of this study is to investigate the use function of this particular tool type recovered from the Hutouliang site in the Nihewan Basin of northern China. In this study, the lithic use-wear analysis is applied to examining microscopically edge-damages and surface-rounding of the tools in order to assess how they were employed. The result suggests that the ASO might have been used as woodworking tools with a hailed shaft, providing evidence for the appearance of the earliest hafted chipped-stone adzes prior to 10000 years ago in northern China. This study also demonstrates that the use-wear technique is an innovated and effective ana- lytic appraoch to the study of stone tool functions that has been conventionally treated by typo-technological analyses. Stone tool use-patterns revealed by use-wear evidence would shed new insights on prehistoric adaptive strategies of modem human in northem China.

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