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The Paleolithic of Dzungaria (Xinjiang, Northwest China) Based on Materials from the Luotuoshi Site

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ID6036993
AuthorsA P Derevianko (0000-0003-1156-8331, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, corresponding author), Xing Gao (0000-0002-4118-3152, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, corresponding author), Gao Xing, John W Olsen (0000-0001-5295-7451, University of Arizona, corresponding author), Evgeny P Rybin (0000-0001-7434-2757, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume40
Issue4
Pages2-18
Publication date2012-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueArchaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X
PublisherInstitute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1016/j.aeae.2013.04.002
OpenAlexW2018472337
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited8

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

Aeolian processes · Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Blade (archaeology · Cave · China · Geography · Lithic technology · Middle Paleolithic · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Geology · Paleontology

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