Lithic production strategies during the late Middle Pleistocene at Dali, Shaanxi Province, China: implications for understanding late archaic humans

doi:10.1007/s12520-018-0626-6

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	Lithic production strategies during the late Middle Pleistocene at Dali, Shaanxi Province, China: implications for understanding late archaic humans
	Li, Hao 1,2; Lotter, Matt G.3
	2019-05-01
发表期刊	ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN	1866-9557
卷号	11 期号:5 页码:1701-1712
通讯作者	Li, Hao(wits_ivpp@hotmail.com)
摘要	The Dali hominid site is well known as it contains a human cranium associated with stone artefacts and animal bones. Dating efforts have provided an age range of 300-247ka for these remains. Renewed study of the cranium in recent years has revealed a mix of archaic traits in the neurocranium and derived features in the face, and thus, this specimen may provide insight into our understanding of modern human evolution in China. However, the technological behaviour possessed by these people has remained unclear due to a lack of new and detailed research. In this paper, we re-examine the lithic assemblages from Dali, originally excavated in 1978 and 1980, and for the first time, we now provide a sound assemblage by removing those geofacts that have been used in past archaeological reports. Although the total number of artefacts is now smaller, our results show that core reduction strategies at Dali are primarily expedient, dominated by simple unifacial unidirectional flaking. In contrast, the formal tools exhibit relatively advanced technology, with artefacts that are diverse in type and characterized by a relatively standardized production strategy. In contrast to the widely accepted model for slow and conservative technological development in Chinese Palaeolithic technology, pre 40ka, here, we suggest that there is evidence for gradual technological changes from the Early to Middle and early Late Pleistocene.
关键词	Northwestern China Dali cranium Late archaic humans Late Middle Pleistocene Lithic technology
DOI	10.1007/s12520-018-0626-6
关键词[WOS]	DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR REGION ; NIHEWAN BASIN ; HOMO-SAPIENS ; PALEOLITHIC SITE ; WESTERN-EUROPE ; JEBEL IRHOUD ; HOMININ ; AGE ; TECHNOLOGY ; ORIGIN
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
资助项目	Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program ; Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program Grant[XDPB05] ; National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa ; Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) with its Scatterings of Africa programs
项目资助者	Chinese Academy of Sciences Pioneer Hundred Talents Program ; Chinese Academy of Sciences Strategic Priority Research Program Grant ; National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa ; Palaeontological Scientific Trust (PAST) with its Scatterings of Africa programs
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000466856100004
出版者	SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/9713
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
通讯作者	Li, Hao
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Univ Pretoria, Dept Anthropol & Archaeol, Lynnwood Rd, ZA-0083 Pretoria, South Africa
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Li, Hao,Lotter, Matt G.. Lithic production strategies during the late Middle Pleistocene at Dali, Shaanxi Province, China: implications for understanding late archaic humans[J]. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,2019,11(5):1701-1712.
APA	Li, Hao,&Lotter, Matt G..(2019).Lithic production strategies during the late Middle Pleistocene at Dali, Shaanxi Province, China: implications for understanding late archaic humans.ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES,11(5),1701-1712.
MLA	Li, Hao,et al."Lithic production strategies during the late Middle Pleistocene at Dali, Shaanxi Province, China: implications for understanding late archaic humans".ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL SCIENCES 11.5(2019):1701-1712.