摘要
目次。一研究背景,二文化分期,三文化分区,四结语,自二十世纪下半叶起,随着长江中下游地区考古工作的持续开展,旧石器时代考古材料迅速增加,新发现的古生物化石数量丰富,第四纪地质等相关学科的研究逐步细化,不断地更新着我们对长江中下游地区旧石器时代文化面貌的认识。本文以公布的考古材料和相关研究成果为基础,尝试对长江中下游已知的旧石器时代工业进行分期和分区,拟建立较为详细的旧石器时代文化序列,对比不同生态环境中旧石器时代文化的异同,细化对该地区旧石器时代文化内涵的理解。
China is rich in Paleolithic remains.As some researchers have pointed out,Northernand Southern China each developed one major stone industry in the Paleolithic Age.Geographically,each industry can be further divided into many parallel local stone traditions.From the year 2000 onwards,large numbers of the Paleolithic remains have been found in the middle and lower Yangtze River valleys.This affords valuable insights into the cobble tool traditions of the Southern China Paleolithic Age.Being an integral part of China's Paleolithic cultures,the traditions in the South exhibit strong independent features.Archaeological evidence shows that the middle and lower Yangtze River valleys witnessed the whole scenario of the Paleolithic Age,which sequence can be established and divided into the formal cobble tool period,the informal cobble tool period and the flaked industrial period,with stone artifacts gradually becoming smaller and varyingly associated,and flaking and trimming techniques diversified.The present study,based on the analysis of stone tool groupings and processing technologies,suggests that the map of the Paleolithic stone tools of the middle and lower Yangtze River valleys should be further divided into four parts,i.e.,the northwestern Hubei where cobble hand-axes prevailed,the regions along the Yangtze River in Hebei province and the Li River in Hunan province where large pointed cobble tools were predominant,the regions along the Wu River where cobble choppers were popular,and the lower Yangtze River valley where heavy cobble scrapers dominated.Such morphological diversity in both temporal and spatial terms may represent the ways that the Paleolithicpeople adjusted their subsistence strategies when dealing with environmental changes and differences.
作者
陈虹
方梦霞
Chen Hong;Fang Mengxia
出处
《考古学报》
CSSCI
北大核心
2020年第1期21-42,共22页
Acta Archaeologica Sinica
基金
浙江省哲学社会科学规划课题“丁村遗址角页岩石器的微痕实验研究”(批准号:18NDJC165YB)成果。
