Emergence of a Blade Industry and Evolution of Late Paleolithic Technology in the Republic of Korea
Emergence of a Blade Industry and Evolution of Late Paleolithic Technology in the Republic of Korea
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DOI：
10.3998/jar.0521004.0065.303
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发表时间：
2009-09
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0.7
通讯作者：
C. Seong
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作者：
C. Seong
行为现代性的起源和传播是近二十年来古人类学界争论最激烈的问题之一。研究人员考察了技术、生存和社会组织的变化。旧石器时代晚期的传统特征是建立了刀片工业。石器技术的模式密切反映了定居和生存系统，任何变化都可以用各种因素之间的相互作用来解释，包括技术限制、原材料可用性、流动性和不断变化的环境中扩展的社会网络。最近考古发掘的增加和年代学的进步使我们能够更详细地讨论韩国晚更新世的文化演变。在旧石器时代晚期早期，人们认识到两个明显的、看似矛盾的特征：(1)一些岩屑组合的特征是由当地石英岩和脉石英制成的小片状人工制品，(2)其他组合包括新的人工制品类型——刀片和切点——由迄今为止基本上未使用过的细粒材料制成。旧石器时代晚期的技术特征大约出现在距今4万至3万年前，但直到OIS 2开始，正式的人工制品，如刀片和刀片工具，才在石器组合中占据主导地位。这种变化被认为是一个缓慢的进化过程，最终在旧石器时代晚期的过渡中达到高潮。
The origin and spread of behavioral modernity has been one of the most hotly debated paleoanthropological issues during the past two decades or so. Researchers have examined changes in technology, subsistence, and social organization. The Upper (Late) Paleolithic is traditionally characterized by the establishment of a blade industry. Patterns of lithic technology closely reflect settlement and subsistence systems, and any change can be explained in terms of interplay among various factors, including technological constraints, raw material availability, mobility, and extended social networks in changing environments. A recent increase in archaeological excavations and advances in chronology allow us to discuss Late Pleistocene cultural evolution in Korea in more detail. Two notable, seemingly contradictory features during the early Late Paleolithic are recognized: (1) some lithic assemblages are characterized by small flake artifacts made of local quartzite and vein quartz, and (2) other assemblages include new artifact types—blades and tanged points—manufactured with hitherto largely unused fine-grained materials. Late Paleolithic technological characteristics emerged ca. 40,000-30,000 BP, but not until the onset of the OIS 2 did formal artifacts, such as blades and blade tools, became predominant in lithic assemblages. This change is viewed as a slow, evolutionary process that eventually culminated in the Late Paleolithic transition.