Longgudong,an Early Pleistocene site in Jianshi,South China,with stratigraphic association of human teeth and lithics  

作　　者：LI Hao LI ChaoRong Kathleen KUMAN 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins,Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences [2]School of Geography,Archaeology and Environmental Studies,University of the Witwatersrand

出　　处：《Science China Earth Sciences》2017年第3期452-462,共11页中国科学（地球科学英文版）

基　　金：funded by the Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program;the China-South Africa Bilateral Programme in Palaeolithic Archaeology to Gao Xing(Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, China-South Africa Joint Research Program-7);K.Kuman(National Research Foundation,Grant No.88480)

摘　　要：In this paper we report on Longgudong,an Early Pleistocene cave site in south China which was systematically excavated in 1999 and 2000,and where human teeth and associated stone artifacts were discovered within the same stratigraphic layer.The age of this site was estimated from faunal comparisons and palaeomagnetism and has been attributed to the Early Pleistocene,most probably the earlier Early Pleistocene.The human teeth from this site have been well studied.However,the stone artifacts are still unknown to most scholars.This paper thus presents an analysis of the lithics as the first firmly demonstrated stone tools associated with Early Pleistocene human fossils in south China.In this paper we report on Longgudong, an Early Pleistocene cave site in south China which was systematically excavated in 1999 and 2000, and where human teeth and associated stone artifacts were discovered within the same stratigraphic layer. The age of this site was estimated from faunal comparisons and palaeomagnetism and has been attributed to the Early Pleistocene, most probably the earlier Early Pleistocene. The human teeth from this site have been well studied. However, the stone artifacts are still unknown to most scholars. This paper thus presents an analysis of the lithics as the first firmly demonstrated stone tools associated with Early Pleistocene human fossils in south China.

关 键 词：Longgudong Early Pleistocene Hominin teeth Stone artifacts 

分 类 号：Q981[天文地球—古生物学与地层学] P534.631[生物学—人类学]