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Late Pleistocene representative sites in north China and their indication of evolutionary human behavior
Quaternary international • 295 • Published In 2013 • Pages: 183-190
By: Hou, Yamei, Yang, Shi-Xia, Dong, Wei, Zhang, Jia-Fu, Yang, Liu.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors describe four late Pleistocene sites: Xiaogushan, Salawusu (dated to the Middle Paleolithic), Shiyu, and Yanjiagang. The bone and stone tools, fauna, ornaments, and human remains are briefly described, and the faunal collections are compared.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Identification
- Dating methods in archaeology
- Climate
- Fauna
- Flora
- Ornament
- Bone, horn, and shell technology
- Lithic industries
- Weapons
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- North China Upper Paleolithic
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2019
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry; 2017
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 70,000-10,000 BP
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- North China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ya-Mei Hou, Shi-Xia Yang, Wei Dong, Jia-Fu Zhang, Yang Liu
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 190)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 90660977
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Ordosian