Abstract: The Jigongshan site is located on a small mound of the left bank of the Yangtze River, about 5km to the northeast of Jingzhou, Hubei Province, and was excavated in 1992. The section of Jigongshan includes two major parts, the upper is the yellow mild clay with small flake-tools; the lower is the red- dish-brown mild-clay with many cobble-tools. Regional stratigraphic sequence shows that the lower part should be referred to the early Late Pleistocene to late Middle Pleistocene, and the upper part probably to the late Late Pleistocene. The most interesting discovery at the Jigongshan site isthe living floor in the lower horizon, which is nearly 500 square metres large with tens of thousand of stone artifacts. These da- ta indicate that early humans occupied Jigongshan for a long period and were active at the site.

Key words: Palaeolith; Pleistocene environment; Jigongshan site