The Paleolithic of Dzungaria (Xinjiang,Northwest China) Based on Materials from the Luotuoshi Site |
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| Authors: | AP Derevianko Gao Xing JW Olsen EP Rybin |
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| Institution: | 1. Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences, Akademika Lavrentieva 17, Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia;2. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimenwai, Beijing, 100044, China;3. School of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;2. School of Anatomical Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg, South Africa;3. Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;4. Department of Anthropology, Geography and Ethnic Studies, California State University at Stanislaus, Turlock CA, USA;5. Department of Anthropology, Washington University, Saint Louis, MO 63130, USA;6. Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), Burgos, Spain;1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origin of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimen Street, Beijing 100044, China;2. Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;4. Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100029, China;1. Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, PO Wits 2050, Johannesburg, South Africa;2. School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa;3. TraceoLab / Prehistory, University of Liège, Place du 20-Août 7 (bât A4), 4000 Liège, Belgium;4. Chercheur Qualifié du FNRS, Belgium;5. Institute for Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Germany;1. Interdepartmental Doctoral Program in Anthropological Sciences, Stony Brook University, USA;2. Department of Anthropology and Development Studies at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa;3. Anthropology Department, Stony Brook University, USA;1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing 100044, China;2. Institut für Ur-und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters, Universität Tübingen, Tübingen 72070, Germany;3. Department of Anthropology, Bldg. 30, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721-0030, USA |
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| Abstract: | The paper reports the results of an analysis of surface collections of artifacts made at the Luotuoshi site in Dzungaria, Xinjiang, northwest China. The site was discovered in 2004 by a joint Chinese-Russian-American archaeological expedition. A techno-typological analysis of the artifacts was carried out noting aeolian abrasion of the artifacts’ surfaces. This technocomplex is quite homogenous and is characterized by a combination of Levallois-like and subprismatic blade-based reduction techniques. Analogs of the Luotuoshi assemblage have been identified within the lithic industries of the Altai, the Orkhon-1 and Tolbor-4 sites in Mongolia, and at Shuidonggou in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region in China, all of which have been attributed to the Early Upper Paleolithic. Luotuoshi is the first site associated with the blade-based Early Upper Paleolithic discovered in northwest China and its particular features make it possible to correlate this technocomplex with those from southern Siberia and northern Central Asia. |
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| Keywords: | China Xinjiang Central Asia Early Upper Paleolithic lithic technology |
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