湖南临澧县条头岗旧石器时代遗址发掘简报

The Excavation of the Tiaotougang Site of the Paleolithic Age in Linli County,Hunan

条头岗旧石器时代中期遗址出土砾石(搬运石材)、石锤、石砧、石核、石片、工具等石制品7300余件,主要集中分布于上文化层。该遗址文化遗存以燧石原料居多、中小型石片石器为主,反映了长江中游一种新的石器工业面貌,为研究华南砾石石器工业的区域多样性和古人类的技术演变、适应行为提供了重要资料。

From the Tiaotougang Site of the Middle Paleolithic Age,pebbles(transported blanks),hammerstones,stone anvils,cores,complete flakes,implements and waste products,in total over 7300 pieces,have been unearthed.These artifacts were mainly concentrated in the upper cultural layers,the density of which is rarely seen among the open-air sites of the same period of the Paleolithic Age in Hunan and South China.The materials of the artifacts of this site were mostly flint,and the main lithic products were middle-and smallsized flake tools,which reflected the features of a new lithic industry in the middle reach of the Yangtze River and provided physical materials for the studies on the regional diversity of the pebble tool industry and the technological evolutions and adaptive behaviors of the ancient people in South China.