Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.051

	Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China
	Gao, Xing1,2 ; Guan, Ying 1
刊名	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
	2018-06-30
卷号	480 页码:132-140
关键词	Handaxe Biface Large Cutting Tool Pick-chopper Industry China Paleolithic
ISSN号	1040-6182
DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2017.03.051
文献子类	Article
英文摘要	The presence of handaxes (bifaces; Large Cutting Tools) in Paleolithic industries in China and elsewhere in East Asia and their relationship with western Acheulian bifaces have been discussed and debated for a long time. Most researchers concur that handaxes occur in some Paleolithic industries in certain regions of central and south China. However, Chinese handaxes exhibit some unique characteristics compared with their western Acheulian counterparts, either in terms of their quantity in lithic assemblages or based upon their specific technological and morphological features. Analyses indicate that most Chinese handaxes are variants of picks, a type of large digging tool found in Pick-Chopper Industries over a vast region, complementary to choppers, which are a kind of large cutting tool produced and used in the region for a long period of time. Raw material impact, adaptation to certain habitat, close ties with the pebble tool tradition, and the relative isolation of local populations may all have contributed to the uniqueness and diversity of this type of lithic artifact in the region. Such stone tools may have played very important roles in human survival and adaptation in the intermontane basins and woodlands in tropical and subtropical environments in central and south China throughout the Pleistocene. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd and INQUA. All rights reserved.
WOS关键词	DANJIANGKOU RESERVOIR REGION ; LARGE CUTTING TOOLS ; SOUTH CHINA ; BOSE BASIN ; STONE TECHNOLOGY ; MOVIUS LINE ; ASIA ; EAST ; GUANGXI ; SITE
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
语种	英语
出版者	PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
WOS记录号	WOS:000433229100010
资助机构	Key Research Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences(KZCX-EW-15) ; National Natural Science Foundation of China(41302015 ; Basic Research Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China(2014FY110300) ; 41672024)
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/8408]
专题	中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所
通讯作者	Gao, Xing
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origins, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.Univ Chinese Acad Sci, Beijing, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Gao, Xing,Guan, Ying. Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China[J]. QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,2018,480:132-140.
APA	Gao, Xing,&Guan, Ying.(2018).Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China.QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,480,132-140.
MLA	Gao, Xing,et al."Handaxes and the Pick-Chopper Industry of Pleistocene China".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 480(2018):132-140.