岑家湾旧石器时代早期文化遗物及地点性质的研究

ON THE CULTURAL RELICS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE LOWER PALEOLITHIC SITE AT CENJIAWAN VILLAGE

岑家湾地点的再次发掘,采用水平发掘方法,获得较丰富的实物资料和有关对地点性质,人类行为、埋藏类型和环境进行判定的信息。发掘所揭露出的石制品和动物遗骨可分为密集分布区与零星分布区,其中,密集分布区域可能是当时人类进行生产与生活活动的主要场所。岑家湾地点可能是泥河湾层中发现的旧石器时代早期属于原地埋藏类型的唯一代表。

The results of excavation at Cenjiawan site in 1986 had been published on Acta Anthropologica Sinica, Vol. IX, No. 3 in 1990. In laboratory we found that many artifacts reported in that article can be joined together . AH artifacts come only from 20 pieces of stone blocks. Most of the broken bones show signs of serious weathering and few of them exhibit the gnawing marks of carnivores and the cut marks of prehistoric man. Another excavation was carried out in the spring of 1992, 486 pieces of artifacts and 206 pieces of bones are obtained in the area of twenty square meters. According to the analysis of the information we can draw a conclusion by deduction: This is an open air site for making stone tools, butchering and eating. The prehistoric human group using this site is small. The site may belong to the original burial pattern. The artifacts are simply and roughly manufactured.