Heat treated stone artifacts at Shuidonggou, Northwest China and their archaeological implications | |
Zhou, Zhenyu1,3; Huan, Yong2; Shao, Yaqi2; Dai, Yujing2; Yang, Haisheng2; Zhou, ZY (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China. | |
2014-10-09 | |
发表期刊 | QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL |
ISSN | 1040-6182 |
卷号 | 347期号:347页码:84-90 |
文章类型 | Article |
摘要 | Artifacts from the Shuidonggou (SDG) site complex in Ningxia province provide extensive information and insights regarding the activities of early modern humans in China. Based on a series of experiments and physical analyses, it appears that the stone artifacts from SDG Locality 2 and Locality 12 have undergone heat treatment that enhanced the utilization ratio and knapping properties of the lithic raw material from which they were made. In order to investigate the mechanisms involved, compression tests and XRD (X-ray Diffraction) examinations were conducted on lithic raw materials collected surround the SDG sites. The results indicate that the heated stones present lower compression strength and better ductility, and the raw material becomes more homogeneous as well. The process of crack propagation also becomes easier to control, thereby reducing knapping difficulties. The application of heat treatment technology at SDG reflects the production capacities and risk management strategies of the SDG inhabitants and provides evidence for the level of understanding associated with early modern human behavior. This discovery confirms the appearance of this technology in the East Asia around 32 ka BP (which lasts to 11 ka BP), providing new evidence for the spread and distribution of heat treatment technology. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved. |
关键词 | Upper Paleolithic Modern Behavior China Heat Treatment Mechanical Properties |
WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences |
关键词[WOS] | HIGH-TEMPERATURE ; LITHIC TECHNOLOGY ; ROCK FRACTURE ; SITE ; FLINTS ; MICRO |
收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI |
语种 | 英语 |
项目资助者 | Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDA05130303]; National Natural Science Foundation of China [11372323]; Chinese Academy of Sciences |
WOS研究方向 | Physical Geography ; Geology |
WOS类目 | Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000343845200010 |
引用统计 | |
文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/5112 |
专题 | 古人类及旧石器研究室 |
通讯作者 | Zhou, ZY (reprint author), Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China. |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Mech, State Key Lab Nonlinear Mech, Beijing 100190, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Social Sci, Inst Archaeol, Beijing 100710, Peoples R China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Zhou, Zhenyu,Huan, Yong,Shao, Yaqi,et al. Heat treated stone artifacts at Shuidonggou, Northwest China and their archaeological implications[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2014,347(347):84-90. |
APA | Zhou, Zhenyu,Huan, Yong,Shao, Yaqi,Dai, Yujing,Yang, Haisheng,&Zhou, ZY .(2014).Heat treated stone artifacts at Shuidonggou, Northwest China and their archaeological implications.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,347(347),84-90. |
MLA | Zhou, Zhenyu,et al."Heat treated stone artifacts at Shuidonggou, Northwest China and their archaeological implications".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 347.347(2014):84-90. |
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