Reference Base Re-examination of the Yanjiagang Paleolithic Campsite, No... |
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Asia - East Asia - China |
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Taxonomy |
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Fossil |
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The Yanjiagang Paleolithic site near Harbin,the capital city of Heilongjiang Province is located on the broad fluvial plain of Songhuajiang, a main river in northeastern China. Excavation during the 1980s defined it as a campsite of Upper Paleolithic hunters,which consists of two semi-circle structures made of bone fragments from animals such as bison, woolly rhinoceros,mammoth,deer,horse,and gazelle. Some researchers,however,have argued that the circles are not artifacts but a result of natural river movement. A re-examination of the site by the authors reports that Yanjiagang is indeed a campsite of ancient hunters. The artificial nature of the animal bone circle structures does not have any support from the re-examination. The present report corrects the radioactive dating of the site as 14 C cal BP 26957 ± 626,which can be compared with late MIS 3 and is older than the previously published result of 22370 ± 300 BP.
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