Abstract: One hundred and seven pieces of stone artifacts collected from the Shangmakan paleolithic site in Anji County, Zhejiang Province have been described and analyzed in this paper. On the basis of the characters of these stone artifacts, the assemblage belongs to the Principal Paleolithic Industry of South China. Within the deposition sequence of the site exposed by the tentative excavation, an artifact concentration surface was identified, laid about 311 —315cm underneath the top of the second terrace. Thirteen artifacts were unearthed from this surface. These make up 44.8 %of the total stone artifacts discovered from the excavation pit at the site. The age of the site may be dated ranging from about 0.45 Ma Bp to the Upper Pleistocene according to stratigraphic comparisons with the Chenshan Paleo-lithic site in Xuanzhou County, Anhui province and ESR dates derived from the site.
Shangmakan Paleolithic site is the first Paleolithic site found in Zhejiang Province. Preliminary investigation at the site indicates that it is of significant value to the study of South China' s prehistory, and it may become one of the most important Paleolithic sites in South China if multi-disciplinary stud-ies will be conducted in the future.

Key words: Lithic artifacts; Paleolithic; Shangmakan