Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.051

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	Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China
	Gao, Xing1,2 ; Guan, Ying 1
	2018-06-30
发表期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
卷号	480 期号:000 页码:132-140
文章类型	Article
摘要	The presence of handaxes (bifaces; Large Cutting Tools) in Paleolithic industries in China and elsewhere in East Asia and their relationship with western Acheulian bifaces have been discussed and debated for a long time. Most researchers concur that handaxes occur in some Paleolithic industries in certain regions of central and south China. However, Chinese handaxes exhibit some unique characteristics compared with their western Acheulian counterparts, either in terms of their quantity in lithic assemblages or based upon their specific technological and morphological features. Analyses indicate that most Chinese handaxes are variants of picks, a type of large digging tool found in Pick-Chopper Industries over a vast region, complementary to choppers, which are a kind of large cutting tool produced and used in the region for a long period of time. Raw material impact, adaptation to certain habitat, close ties with the pebble tool tradition, and the relative isolation of local populations may all have contributed to the uniqueness and diversity of this type of lithic artifact in the region. Such stone tools may have played very important roles in human survival and adaptation in the intermontane basins and woodlands in tropical and subtropical environments in central and south China throughout the Pleistocene. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
关键词	Handaxe Biface Large Cutting Tool Pick-chopper Industry China Paleolithic
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.051
关键词[WOS]	DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR REGION ; LARGE CUTTING TOOLS ; SOUTH CHINA ; BOSE BASIN ; STONE TECHNOLOGY ; MOVIUS LINE ; ASIA ; EAST ; GUANGXI ; SITE
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
项目资助者	Key Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX-EW-15) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(41302015 ; Basic Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2014FY110300) ; 41672024)
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000433229100010
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8409
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Gao, Xing
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Xing,Guan, Ying. Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2018,480(000):132-140.
APA	Gao, Xing,&Guan, Ying.(2018).Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,480(000),132-140.
MLA	Gao, Xing,et al."Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 480.000(2018):132-140.

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