Use-wear analysis confirms the use of Palaeolithic bone tools by the Lingjing Xuchang early human  

作　　者：LI ZhanYang 1,4 & SHEN Chen 2,3,4 1 Henan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology,Zhengzhou 450000,China 2 The Joint Laboratory of Human Evolution and Archaeometry,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100044,China 3 The Royal Ontario Museum,Toronto ON M5S2C6,Canada 4 Oriental Archaeology Research Center of Shandong University,Jinan 250100,China 

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2010年第21期2282-2289,共8页

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(40872115);CAS/SAFEA International Partnership Program for Creative Research Teams;the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (111-2-09)

摘　　要：During 2007-2008 excavations at the Lingjing site near Xuchang,Henan Province,dated back to around 100-80 ka ago,a large quantity of mammalian fossil remains were recovered along with a remarkable cluster of Early Modern Human(EMH) skull fragments in situ.Observably some of those animal bones were probably modified into tools.A use-wear analysis was carried out to examine the functions of modified bone tools.The results suggest that Lingjing bone tools were used for drilling,penetrating,and scraping animal substances,and that some might have been hafted during the use.This study confirms that early existence ofintentionally-modified bone tools at human occupations of the early Late Pleistocene in northern China.This discovery suggests making and use of bone tools were inevitably a part of early human behaviors and cultural development,as such of stone tools.During 2007-2008 excavations at the Lingjing site near Xuchang, Henan Province, dated back to around 100-80 ka ago, a large quantity of mammalian fossil remains were recovered along with a remarkable cluster of Early Modern Human （EMH） skull fragments in situ. Observably some of those animal bones were probably modified into tools. A use-wear analysis was carried out to examine the functions of modified bone tools. The results suggest that Lingjing bone tools were used for drilling, penetrating, and scraping animal substances, and that some might have been hafted during the use. This study confirms that early existence of intentionally-modified bone tools at human occupations of the early Late Pleistocene in northern China. This discovery suggests making and use of bone tools were inevitably a part of early human behaviors and cultural development, as such of stone tools.

关 键 词：早期人类 磨损分析 旧石器时代 工具 许昌 哺乳动物化石 现代人类 动物骨头 

分 类 号：Q981[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] U472.43[生物学—人类学]