丹江口库区红石坎Ⅰ旧石器地点发掘简报

A Study of the Stone Artifacts from the Excavation of the Hongshikan I Site in the Danjiangkou Reservoir

红石坎Ⅰ旧石器遗址是丹江口库区一处重要遗址,埋藏于汉江右岸第3级阶地。2008年发掘并揭露525m2,出土石制品136件,采集22件。石制品类型包括备料、人工石块、石锤、石核、石片、刮削器、砍砸器、手镐、凹缺刮器、碎片等,具有南、北方石器工业过渡的文化特征,时代应属于旧石器时代早期。

The Hongshikan I Paleolithic site is located in the right bank of Hanshui River＇s third terrace, nearby the Hongshikan village, Junxian town, Danjiangkou City, Hubei Province. The site was found in 1994 and an area of 525 m^2 was excavated in 2008 by a field team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. A total of 136 stone artifacts were unearthed and 22 stone artifacts were collected from the site. The stone artifacts include manuports, chunks, cores, flakes, scrapers, hammerstones, chopping- tools and picks, and show the transitional culture characteristics between North and South China. These stone artifacts probably belong to the early Paleolithic of the Middle Pleistocene by the comparative analysis of stratigraphy, and provide important new materials to study the Paleolithic culture of the Danjiangkou Reservoir of China. Some Acheulean-like stone tools, such as hand-axes, cleavers and chopping tools, had been discovered in the survey in 1994, but not in this excavation, so we have more work to conduct on the activity of early humans in the Hanshui river valley.