Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1992, Vol. 11 ›› Issue (04): 345-353.

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Palaeoliths from Dafa, Yuci, Shanxi

Li Zhuangwei, Wang Zhigang   

  • Online:1992-12-15 Published:1992-12-15

Abstract: The materials described in this paper came from Dafa locality at Yuci county, Shanxi Province in North China. This locality was found in 1980 and excavated in 1990. The collection includes stone artifacts and mammal fossils. All of them were unearthed from the front margin of the second terrace.
The stone artifacts, totaling 700, mainly made of chert, quartzite, silicoblades, flake sand tools. The tools consist of scrapers, end scrapers, points, burins and bores elc. The scrapers include single edged scraper, double edged scraper and multiside scraper.
According to the study of statigraphy, mammal fossils and stone artifacts, the age of Dafa locality probably belongs to upper Pleistocene or late Paleolithic, this discovery provide simportant material to study the origin and development of typical late Paleolithic tradition in North China.

Key words: Palaeolithic artifacts; Upper Pleistocene; Dafa