Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia  

作　　者：Shi-Xia Yang Fa-Gang Wang Fei Xie Jian-Ping Yue Cheng-Long Deng Ri-Xiang Zhu Michael D.Petraglia 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100044,China [2]Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100044,China [3]Department of Archaeology,Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,Jena 07745,Germany [4]Hebei Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics,Shijiazhuang 050031,China [5]Department of History,Anhui University,Hefei 230039,China [6]State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution,Institute of Geology and Geophysics,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100029,China [7]College of Earth and Planetary Sciences,University of Chinese Academy of Sciences,Beijing 100049,China [8]Human Origins Program,National Museum of Natural History,Smithsonian Institution,Washington DC 20560,USA [9]School of Social Science,The University of Queensland,Brisbane QLD 4072,Australia

出　　处：《National Science Review》2021年第1期131-141,共11页国家科学评论（英文版）

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41602021,41690112 and 41888101);the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(XDB26000000);the Key Research Program of the Institute of Geology&Geophysics,CAS(IGGCAS-201905);the Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(2020074);the Max Planck Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation(to S.X.Y.)。

摘　　要：The interplay between Pleistocene climatic variability and hominin adaptations to diverse terrestrial ecosystems is a key topic in human evolutionary studies.Early and Middle Pleistocene environmental change and its relation to hominin behavioural responses has been a subject of great interest in Africa and Europe,though little information is available for other key regions of the Old World,particularly from Eastern Asia.Here we examine key Early Pleistocene sites of the Nihewan Basin,in high-latitude northern China,dating between~1.4 and 1.0 million years ago(Ma).We compare stone-tool assemblages from three Early Pleistocene sites in the Nihewan Basin,including detailed assessment of stone-tool refitting sequences at the~1.1-Ma-old site of Cenjiawan.Increased toolmaking skills and technological innovations are evident in the Nihewan Basin at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition(MPT).Examination of the lithic technology of the Nihewan sites,together with an assessment of other key Palaeolithic sites of China,indicates that toolkits show increasing diversity at the outset of the MPT and in its aftermath.The overall evidence indicates the adaptive flexibility of early hominins to ecosystem changes since the MPT,though regional abandonments are also apparent in high latitudes,likely owing to cold and oscillating environmental conditions.The view presented here sharply contrasts with traditional arguments that stone-tool technologies of China are homogeneous and continuous over the course of the Early Pleistocene.

关 键 词：early hominins behavioural adaptations technological innovations Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition(MPT) 

分 类 号：P534.631[天文地球—第四纪地质学] P532[天文地球—古生物学与地层学]