匼河旧石器遗址6054和6056地点地层的再研究

RESTUDY ON THE STRATA OF TWO PALEOLITHIC SITES AT KEHE

发现于 195 7年的河遗址群的年代一直存在较大的争议。对河遗址群中两个代表性的遗址的地层进行了再研究 ,认为 60 5 4地点文化层位于黄土—古土壤序列中 S2 以下 ,而 60 5 6地点位于马兰黄土之下 ,二者的时代有较大的差别 ,60 5 4地点可能比 60 5 6地点时代要早。

The Kehe paleolithic sites, unearthed in 1957, remain one of the most important paleolithic archaeological discoveries in Shanxi Province, and play an important role in the history of paleolithic archaeology in China. Unfortunlly the age of culture layers has been disputed, this is mainly due to the misunderstanding of the loess covering the fluvial deposits. In this paper, the strata of localities 6054 and 6056, two representatives of the Kehe paleolithic sites were restudied, the stratigraphic section is measured in detail, and the samples of susceptibility are collected and analyzed. The strata at localities 6054 and 6056 consist of two kinds of sediments ranging from top to bottom of loess-paleosol sequence and fluvial(some lacustrine deposits at locality 6056) accumulations. There are great differences between the two localities: for the locality 6054, the loess-paleosol sequence is about 20m in thickness, including the eolian deposits of the S 0,L 1,S 1,L 2,S 2, while for the locality 6056, the upper part of the eolian deposits is just Malan loess, not the “red clay” originally attributed to. In the end an age of being not very different from Daili site is suggested for the Site 6054 and an age since the last interglacial period for the Site 6056.