Use-wear analysis confirms the use of Palaeolithic bone tools by the Lingjing Xuchang early human
Use-wear analysis confirms the use of Palaeolithic bone tools by the Lingjing Xuchang early human
复制标题
DOI：
10.1007/s11434-010-3089-4
复制
发表时间：
2010-08
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Zhan-Yang Li;Chen Shen
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Zhan-Yang Li;Chen Shen
在河南许昌附近灵井遗址2007-2008年的发掘中，发现了大量哺乳动物化石遗骸，以及一组引人注目的早期现代人(EMH)头骨碎片。值得注意的是，其中一些动物的骨骼可能被改造成了工具。对改良骨工具进行使用磨损分析，以检验其功能。结果表明，灵境骨器被用于钻探、穿透和刮除动物物质，其中一些可能在使用过程中被折断。本研究证实，中国北部地区早在晚更新世早期就存在刻意改装的骨器。这一发现表明，制作和使用骨器不可避免地是早期人类行为和文化发展的一部分，就像石器一样。
During 2007–2008 excavations at the Lingjing site near Xuchang, Henan Province, dated back to around 100–80 ka ago, a large quantity of mammalian fossil remains were recovered along with a remarkable cluster of Early Modern Human (EMH) skull fragmentsin situ. Observably some of those animal bones were probably modified into tools. A use-wear analysis was carried out to examine the functions of modified bone tools. The results suggest that Lingjing bone tools were used for drilling, penetrating, and scraping animal substances, and that some might have been hafted during the use. This study confirms that early existence of intentionally-modified bone tools at human occupations of the early Late Pleistocene in northern China. This discovery suggests making and use of bone tools were inevitably a part of early human behaviors and cultural development, as such of stone tools.