广东郁南县磨刀山旧石器时代遗址发掘简报

The Excavation of the Modaoshan Site of the Paleolithic Age in Yunan County,Guangdong

磨刀山遗址第1地点出土石制品近400件,原料以石英、砂岩与石英岩为主,另有少量细砂岩与变质砂岩,类别有石料、石核、石片、石器、断块、碎屑及使用砾石,成形石器相对较少。第1地点遗存的年代为中更新世偏早阶段,属于旧石器时代早期。磨刀山遗址是广东省目前确认的年代最早的古人类文化遗存。

In 2014, Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology and other institutions excavated l_x^cality 1 of the Modaoshan （Whetting Hill） Site in Yunan County, Guangdong. The excavation recovered almost 400 pieces of lithic products mostly made of quartz, sandstone and quartzite, plus a few made of fine sandstone and metasandstone, the categories of which included blanks, cores, flakes, tools, chunks, debris and utilized pebbles, containing the entire procedure from blank fetching, stone tool making and refuse abandoning, and the finished tools took small proportion. The date of Locality 1 was the early stage of the Middle Pleistocene, belonging to the Lower Paleolithic Age. The Modaoshan Site is the first open site of the Paleolithic Age scientifically excavated in Guangdong Province and the earliest cultural remains of the early human beings in Guangdong Province confirmed to date.