Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 2015, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (03): 288-298.

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Early Mid-Pleistocene Stone Artifacts Including Handaxes Discovered at the Baifeng Site in Tianyang County, Bose Basin, Guangxi, South China

LI Dawei, HUANG Zhongzheng, LUO Zhibo, LIAO Wei, WANG Wei   

  • Online:2015-09-15 Published:2015-09-15

Abstract: The Baifeng Paleolithic site is located in the fourth terrace, southern bank of the Youjiang River, Bose Basin, South China and in 2008 there are 37 pieces of stone artifacts with 2 pieces of tektites discovered in situ. These stone artifacts include two handaxes and sixteen picks and most of their blanks are flat cobbles. Their raw materials are sandstone, quartzite, quartz, lava and so on. Some tektites coexisted with the stone artifacs from the fourth terrace were dated to around 803 ka BP and thus it is estimated that the age of the Baifeng site should be in the end of the Early Pleistocene.

Key words: Bose Basin; Baifeng Site; Handaxe; Pick; Tektites; Early Middle Pleistocene