The timing and behavioral markers of the Upper Paleolithic in different parts of the world are of great importance to research on modern human dispersals. The pattern of behavioral developments in the Upper Paleolithic in northern China differs in important ways from the patterns observed in West Eurasia, Africa, and South Asia. Shuidonggou (SDG), a cluster of Paleolithic sites in northern China, contains several of the most important Upper Paleolithic sites in the region. Various localities yield evidence of three major cultural components dated by 14C, uranium-series, and optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) methods to between roughly 46 ka and 10 ka. The oldest component, blade assemblages with western Eurasian early Upper Paleolithic characteristics, appears to be intrusive from Siberia and/or Mongolia, beginning at least 41 ka (e.g., SDG 1 and SDG 9). Advanced core and flake assemblages may mark the appearance of an indigenous Late Paleolithic of North China beginning at around 33 ka (e.g., SDG 2 and SDG 8). Finally, around 10.5 ka, microblade technology arrived in the area (SDG 12), although we are not sure of its origins at present. Other typical Upper Paleolithic cultural remains, such as bone tools and body decorations, have been found at various localities in the SDG area as well (e.g., ostrich eggshell beads from SDG 2, 7, and 8). Information from this cluster of occupations increases our understanding of cultural variability, adaptation, and demographic dynamics of modern humans in Late Pleistocene northern Asia.
近年来,不少明清经济史学者对18世纪中国经济发展程度提出了新的评估,强调直至进入19世纪之前,中国江南地区的经济发展其实并不逊于英国、西欧或世界其他任何地区。诸如R.Bin Wong(王国斌)的《ChinaTransformed:Historical Change and the Limits ofEuropean Experience》(Ithaca and London:Cornell University Press,1997)和Kenneth Po-meranz(彭慕兰)的《The Great Divergence:China,Europe,and the Making of the ModernWorld Economy》(Princeton and Oxford:Prince-ton University Press,2000),这些论著都是从正面肯定明… 相似文献
