Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China

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	Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China
	LIU Wu1 ; WU XianZhu 2; LI YiYin 3; DENG ChengLong 4; WU XiuJie 1; PEI ShuWen 1
	2009
发表期刊	chinesesciencebulletin
ISSN	1001-6538
卷号	54 期号:2 页码:256
摘要	Since 2004, three excavations have been carried out at a late Pleistocene human fossil site of Huanglong Cave in Yunxi County, Hubei Province of China, which unearthed seven human teeth, dozens of stone tools, mammal fossils and other evidence indicating human activities. During the third excavation in 2006, in the same layer as the human teeth, we found some patches of black materials embedded in the deposit. We doubted that this black deposit layer is the remains of burning or even human use of fire at the cave. To further explore the possibility of human fire use at the Huanglong Cave, we examined samples directly taken from the black deposit layer and compared them with samples taken from several places in the cave using three methods: micromorphology, element content determination and deposit temperature analysis. Our results indicate that the contents of carbon element in the black deposit reach 64.59%-73.29%. In contrast, contents of carbon element of the comparative samples from other parts in the cave are only 5.82%-9.49%. The micromorphology analysis of the black deposit samples reveals a plant structure like axial parenchyma, fibrocyte, uniseriate ray and vessel.High-temperature magnetic susceptibility measurements suggest that the stratum possibly underwent a high temperature in the nature. Based on these lab analyses, we are sure that the black layer in the Huanglong Cave is the remains of fire and combustion did occur in the cave 100000 years ago. Taking other evidence of human activities found in the Huanglong Cave into consideration, we believe that the evidence of fire from the Huanglong Cave was caused by the human activities of controlled use of fire.
语种	英语
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/16309
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所 2.Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics of Hubei Province 3.北京大学 4.中国科学院地质与地球物理研究所
第一作者单位	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	LIU Wu,WU XianZhu,LI YiYin,et al. Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China[J]. chinesesciencebulletin,2009,54(2):256.
APA	LIU Wu,WU XianZhu,LI YiYin,DENG ChengLong,WU XiuJie,&PEI ShuWen.(2009).Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China.chinesesciencebulletin,54(2),256.
MLA	LIU Wu,et al."Evidence of fire use of late Pleistocene humans from the Huanglong Cave, Hubei Province, China".chinesesciencebulletin 54.2(2009):256.

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