Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia.
Technological innovations at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition in high-latitude East Asia.
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高纬度东亚中更新世气候转变开始时的技术创新
DOI：
10.1093/nsr/nwaa053
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发表时间：
2021-01
影响因子：
20.6
通讯作者：
Petraglia MD
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文献类型：
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作者：
Yang SX;Wang FG;Xie F;Yue JP;Deng CL;Zhu RX;Petraglia MD
摘要 更新世气候变化与人类对不同陆地生态系统的适应之间的相互作用是人类进化研究的一个关键课题。更新世早期和中期的环境变化及其与人类行为反应的关系一直是非洲和欧洲非常感兴趣的主题，尽管旧世界其他主要地区（尤其是东亚）的信息很少。在这里，我们研究了中国北部高纬度泥河湾盆地的重要早更新世遗址，其年代可追溯到约 1.4 至 100 万年前 (Ma)。我们比较了泥河湾盆地三个早更新世遗址的石器组合，包括对岑家湾~1.1 Ma古遗址石器改装序列的详细评估。在中更新世气候转变（MPT）开始时，泥河湾盆地的工具制造技能和技术创新明显增加。对泥河湾遗址石器技术的检查以及对中国其他重要旧石器时代遗址的评估表明，工具包在 MPT 开始及其之后表现出日益增加的多样性。总体证据表明，自MPT以来，早期人类对生态系统变化具有适应性灵活性，尽管在高纬度地区也出现了明显的区域性遗弃，这可能是由于寒冷和波动的环境条件造成的。这里提出的观点与传统观点形成鲜明对比，传统观点认为中国的石器技术在早更新世的过程中是同质且连续的。
Abstract The interplay between Pleistocene climatic variability and hominin adaptations to diverse terrestrial ecosystems is a key topic in human evolutionary studies. Early and Middle Pleistocene environmental change and its relation to hominin behavioural responses has been a subject of great interest in Africa and Europe, though little information is available for other key regions of the Old World, particularly from Eastern Asia. Here we examine key Early Pleistocene sites of the Nihewan Basin, in high-latitude northern China, dating between ∼1.4 and 1.0 million years ago (Ma). We compare stone-tool assemblages from three Early Pleistocene sites in the Nihewan Basin, including detailed assessment of stone-tool refitting sequences at the ∼1.1-Ma-old site of Cenjiawan. Increased toolmaking skills and technological innovations are evident in the Nihewan Basin at the onset of the Mid-Pleistocene Climate Transition (MPT). Examination of the lithic technology of the Nihewan sites, together with an assessment of other key Palaeolithic sites of China, indicates that toolkits show increasing diversity at the outset of the MPT and in its aftermath. The overall evidence indicates the adaptive flexibility of early hominins to ecosystem changes since the MPT, though regional abandonments are also apparent in high latitudes, likely owing to cold and oscillating environmental conditions. The view presented here sharply contrasts with traditional arguments that stone-tool technologies of China are homogeneous and continuous over the course of the Early Pleistocene.
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影响因子：
2.2
作者：
Dennell, Robin W.
通讯作者：
Dennell, Robin W.
影响因子：
1.8
作者：
Chazan, Michael
通讯作者：
Chazan, Michael
DOI：
10.1002/ajpa.10399
发表时间：
2003-01-01
期刊：
YEARBOOK OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: VOL 46
影响因子：
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作者：
Ant贸n, SC
通讯作者：
Ant贸n, SC
影响因子：
5.3
作者：
Ding, ZL;Derbyshire, E;Liu, TS
通讯作者：
Liu, TS
影响因子：
1.8
作者：
Gao, X;Norton, CJ
通讯作者：
Norton, CJ