关键词: 山西省, 东梁峁遗址, 动物化石, 石制品, 中更新世早期

Abstract:

The Dongliangmao Lower Paleolithic Site(36°02.873′ N、110°34.069′ E, 706ASL) is located along the Qingshuihe River in Jixian County, Shanxi Province, North China. This site was excavated from 2009 to 2010. The excavations exposed a section of some 15m depth and an area of about 1000m². Totally 22 stone artifacts and 2682 animal fossils were unearthed. The stone assemblage includes flakes, chunks and retouched tools, which were made of quartzite, flint and quartz collected from the near Yellow River by ancient human. The tools were chipped and retouched into small-sized scrapers and points by direct hammer percussion. The animal fossils can be identified as Dicerorhinus merki Jäger, Equus sp., Bovinae, Megaloceros pachyosteus Young, Sus sp., Ochotono sp., Myospalax fontanieri and Carnivora et al., which were the common species in North China in the Early Middle Pleistocene, indicating the environmental background of open forest steppe. All the artifacts are unearthed from the lower Lishi loess with 12m thick loess-paleosol sequence, and its gravel bed. Geomorphological and biostratigraphic comparison shows that the age of this site should be Early Middle Pleistocene. The Dongliangmao site provides an important information for the studies on the early Paleolithic archaeological culture and its distribution in North China.

Key words: Shanxi Province, Dongliangmao site, Animal fossils, Stone artifacts, Early Middle Pleistocene