Abstract: The Paleolithic site is situated near Zhaocun village of Qian'an county, Hebei Province and is about 500m a way from the Luanhe River. Some mammalian fossils, stone and bone artifacts were found in the grayish marl and sand layers of the 2nd terrace of the Luanhe River in 1958 and 1973.
This paper gives a brief description of 21 stone artifacts and a few bone artifacts. Among them 14 stone artifacts and some teeth of Cervus sp., Bos primigenius were picked up by the author in 1973; other 7 stone and a few bone artifacts were gathered in 1958 and then regarded as pseudo-artifacts. On the basis of their artifical characters, the present author considered that the specimens discovered in 1958 are stone and bone artifacts except those bone specimens which were gnawn by rodents. Raw-materials of the stone artifacts consist of flint, quartz, quartzite, siliceous limestone and igneous rock. They include 2 cores and 10 flakes produced by direct percussion process, and also 4 bipolar flakes, 2 single straight scrapers, one angle pointed tool, one? graver and one chopper with two edges. According to their blunt percussion point, shallow and board scars, the stone specimens could be produced by the soft hammer method. Most of them were trimmed on the dorsal surface. Their primary characters are basically similar to those found in other sites of North China. This site is dated to be Late Pleistocene or upper paleolithic, supported by the associated mammalian species such as Equus hemionus, Bos primigenius and Cervus canadensis etc. which were usually found elsewhere in the Malan Loess (Q3) of North China. The uranium-series dating of the teeth of B. primigenius found in the same layer with stone and bone artifacts is 48000±2000 or 44000±2000 BP.

Key words: Qian'an; Zhaocun; Paleolith; Upper Paleolithic