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

doi:10.1093/nsr/nwaa053

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	Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia
	Yang, Shi-Xia 1,2,3; Wang, Fa-Gang 4; Xie, Fei 4; Yue, Jian-Ping 5; Deng, Cheng-Long 6,7; Zhu, Ri-Xiang 6,7; Petraglia, Michael D.3,8,9
	2021
发表期刊	NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW
ISSN	2095-5138
卷号	8 期号:1 页码:11
通讯作者	Yang, Shi-Xia(yangshixia@ivpp.ac.cn) ; Petraglia, Michael D.(petraglia@shh.mpg.de)
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 similar to 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 similar to 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)
DOI	10.1093/nsr/nwaa053
关键词[WOS]	MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; NIHEWAN BASIN ; PALEOLITHIC SITE ; BOSE BASIN ; CHINA ; RECORD ; LONG ; ENVIRONMENT ; STRATEGIES ; TIMESCALE
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41602021] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41690112] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41888101] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Key Research Program of the Institute of Geology & Geophysics, CAS[IGGCAS-201905] ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[2020074] ; Max Planck Society ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
项目资助者	National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Key Research Program of the Institute of Geology & Geophysics, CAS ; Youth Innovation Promotion Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; Max Planck Society ; Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
WOS研究方向	Science & Technology - Other Topics
WOS类目	Multidisciplinary Sciences
WOS记录号	WOS:000627417700001
出版者	OXFORD UNIV PRESS
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/18551
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Yang, Shi-Xia; Petraglia, Michael D.
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins Chinese, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Dept Archaeol, D-07745 Jena, Germany 4.Hebei Prov Inst Cultural Rel, Shijiazhuang 050031, Hebei, Peoples R China 5.Anhui Univ, Dept Hist, Hefei 230039, Peoples R China 6.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Geol & Geophys, State Key Lab Lithospher Evolut, Beijing 100029, Peoples R China 7.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Coll Earth & Planetary Sci, Beijing 100049, Peoples R China 8.Smithsonian Inst, Natl Museum Nat Hist, Human Origins Program, Washington, DC 20560 USA 9.Univ Queensland, Sch Social Sci, Brisbane, Qld 4072, Australia
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Yang, Shi-Xia,Wang, Fa-Gang,Xie, Fei,et al. Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia[J]. NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,2021,8(1):11.
APA	Yang, Shi-Xia.,Wang, Fa-Gang.,Xie, Fei.,Yue, Jian-Ping.,Deng, Cheng-Long.,...&Petraglia, Michael D..(2021).Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia.NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW,8(1),11.
MLA	Yang, Shi-Xia,et al."Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia".NATIONAL SCIENCE REVIEW 8.1(2021):11.