Abstract: This paper describes some of the stone artifacts unearthed in 1998 from the Beiyao Loessic Paleolithic site located in Luoyang City. The artifacts are found from layer S2 to L1 of the loess deposits, with an absolute chronology from over 200ka to 70-80ka BP. Layer S1 and S2 are full of stone artifacts, while layer L2 and L1 have less cultural materials. According to a stratigraphic study, there are no distinct changes in stone tool characteristics from layers S2 to L1. The artifacts include cores, flakes, debris, and a few formal tools such as points and scrapers. These tools is very similar to the flake - scraper tradition of northern China, and different from the pebble industry in southern China. By comparing with other archaeological sites in Luohe Valley and with the observation that animal fossils are scarce in the deposit, the author believes that the Beiyao site is probably a temporary stone-artifact manufacturing site.

Key words: Beiyao; Loessic Paleolithic; Site function; Human behavior; Early and Middle Paleolithic