An Upper Paleolithic Perforated Red Deer Canine With Geometric Engravings From QG10, Ningxia, Northwest China

doi:10.3389/feart.2022.814761

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	An Upper Paleolithic Perforated Red Deer Canine With Geometric Engravings From QG10, Ningxia, Northwest China
	Zhang, Yue 1,2; Doyon, Luc 3,4; Peng, Fei 5; Wang, Huimin 6; Guo, Jialong 6; Gao, Xing1,2,7 ; Zhang, Shuangquan 1,2,7
	2022-02-16
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE
卷号	10 期号:0 页码:18
摘要	Personal ornaments are key archaeological remains to investigate prehistoric symbolic systems, and, whenever hard animal remains were used for their manufacture, explore topics on the status attributed to faunal resources by past human groups. Since the onset of the Upper Paleolithic, animal tooth pendants have been widely used in Eurasia as personal adornments or grave goods. However, only two Late Paleolithic Chinese sites have yielded such adornment types until today, i.e., Zhoukoudian Upper Cave, near Beijing, and Xiaogushan, in the Liaoning Province. Here, we present results from the multidisciplinary analysis of a perforated animal tooth from QG10, a multi-stratified archaeological site located on the Ordos Plateau between the arid and sub-arid belts of Northwest China. Although only partially preserved, zooarchaeological analysis indicates the tooth is a right upper canine of a female red deer (Cervus elaphus). Scraping marks on the labial aspect suggest the tooth was extracted from the animal maxillary shortly after its death. Technological analysis of the perforation confirms it was made by rotation with the help of a lithic point hafted onto a drill. The root and occlusal aspect of the tooth were further modified with five sets of notches and incisions, including four incisions making a hashtag pattern on the occlusal aspect. Technological and morphometric analyses indicate these sets were made by two, perhaps three, individual, i.e., one left-handed and one, perhaps two right-handed, with different tools and techniques. Use wear analysis suggests that the adornment was affixed to the body with the tooth crown facing upward. Finally, chemical characterization of red and black residues still adhering to the root indicates that hematite and charcoal may have been used in the production of an adhesive that would have helped stabilize the personal ornament on the body. Collectively, our results and interpretations shed a new light on the complexity of Late Glacial symbolic system carried by populations living in Northern China. We argue this perforated red deer tooth was introduced in the site following a number of social exchanges over long distance and a long period of time rather than produced in situ.
关键词	pleistocene-holocene transition personal ornaments pendant zooarchaeology ochre symbolism
DOI	10.3389/feart.2022.814761
关键词[WOS]	OSTRICH EGGSHELL BEADS ; PERSONAL ORNAMENTS ; MICROBLADE TECHNOLOGY ; SHUIDONGGOU SITE ; RESIDUE ANALYSIS ; SHELL BEADS ; AGE ; EVOLUTION ; INSIGHTS ; CRITERIA
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	National Natural Science Foundation of China[41672023] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41772025] ; Labex LaScArBx-ANR[ANR-10-LABX-52]
WOS研究方向	Geology
WOS类目	Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000764333500001
出版者	FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/21474
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Zhang, Shuangquan
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Bordeaux, CNRS PACEA UMR5199, Bordeaux, France 4.Shandong Univ, Inst Cultural Heritage, Qingdao, Peoples R China 5.Minzu Univ China, Dept Archeol & Museol, Beijing, Peoples R China 6.Ningxia Inst Cultural Rel & Archeol, Yinchuan, Ningxia, Peoples R China 7.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Sch Earth & Planetary, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang, Yue,Doyon, Luc,Peng, Fei,et al. An Upper Paleolithic Perforated Red Deer Canine With Geometric Engravings From QG10, Ningxia, Northwest China[J]. FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,2022,10(0):18.
APA	Zhang, Yue.,Doyon, Luc.,Peng, Fei.,Wang, Huimin.,Guo, Jialong.,...&Zhang, Shuangquan.(2022).An Upper Paleolithic Perforated Red Deer Canine With Geometric Engravings From QG10, Ningxia, Northwest China.FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE,10(0),18.
MLA	Zhang, Yue,et al."An Upper Paleolithic Perforated Red Deer Canine With Geometric Engravings From QG10, Ningxia, Northwest China".FRONTIERS IN EARTH SCIENCE 10.0(2022):18.

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