Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1993, Vol. 12 ›› Issue (03): 214-223.

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On the division of the Upper Palaeolithic Industries of China

Li Yanxian   

  • Online:1993-09-15 Published:1993-09-15

Abstract: The present author pays attention to that the blank, technology and type of the stone :artifacts play a leading role in determining and grouping the industrial patterns in China.Based on this idea,the Upper Palaeolithic industries of China can be grouped into four principal series of more or less parallel development, i.e. blade series, microblade series,flake with null platform series and flake proper one.
In view of technology and typology, the stone industries of Upper Palaeolithic of China comprise both inheritance and development simultaneously.
The emergence of the polymorphism and complexity of the Upper Palaeolithic industries of China may relate to the geologico-geographical condition and the unbalance of inheritance and development in technology and typology.

Key words: Division; Upper Palaeolithic; China