Use-wear evidence confirms the earliest hafted chipped-stone adzes of Upper Palaeolithic in northern China |
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Authors: | XiaoLing Zhang Chen Shen Xing Gao FuYou Chen ChunXue Wang |
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Institution: | 1 Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
2 Laboratory of Human Evolution and Archaeometry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044, China;
3 Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China;
4 The Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto M5S 2C6, Canada |
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Abstract: | Chipped-stone adze-shaped objects (ASOs) were identified from a few Upper Palaeolithic sites in northern China. Its morpho- logical form resembles to ground-stone type-specific adze, but the function of the ASO has never been assessed. The objective of this study is to investigate the use function of this particular tool type recovered from the Hutouliang site in the Nihewan Basin of northern China. In this study, the lithic use-wear analysis is applied to examining microscopically edge-damages and sur- fac... |
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Keywords: | the end of Late Pleistocene Hutuoliang site adze-shaped object (ASO) use-wear analysis composite tool |
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