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DOI: https://doi.org/10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2019.0030

A report on 2019 excavation of the Gezishan Locality 15 in Qingtongxia of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

  • Jialong GUO ,
  • Yueyin YAO ,
  • Huimin WANG ,
  • Decheng LIU ,
  • Xiaomei NIAN ,
  • Fei PENG
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  • 1. Ningxia Institute of Archaeology and Cultural relics, Yinchuan, 750001
    2. National Museum of China, Beijing 100006
    3. Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101
    4. State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research,East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062
    5. Laboratory for Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of CAS at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China
    6. CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044
    7. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049

Received date: 2019-01-11

  Revised date: 2019-04-22

  Online published: 2020-09-10

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Abstract

This paper describes the excavation, stratigraphy, and lithic assemblages of locality 15, a Late Pleistocene to Holocene site from the Gezishan site complex. A trench about 16m2was excavated in 2015. Four layers were exposed within more than three meters of sandy sediments. 155 lithic artifacts and three fragile fragments of mammal fossils were unearthed. The lithic assemblages are simple core-and-flake technology. Quartzite pebbles provided the largest number of knapped pieces. Retouched tools are rare but are dominated by scrapers. Considering the gaps in chronology and local environmental change during the Pleistocene and Holocene, the relationship between human activity and climate change should be further investigated in this region.

Key words： Terminal Paleolithic; Ningxia; Gezishan site; Flake assemblage; Gobi

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Jialong GUO , Yueyin YAO , Huimin WANG , Decheng LIU , Xiaomei NIAN , Fei PENG . A report on 2019 excavation of the Gezishan Locality 15 in Qingtongxia of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region[J]. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2019 , 38(02) : 182 -190 . DOI: 10.16359/j.cnki.cn11-1963/q.2019.0030

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