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DOI | 10.1016/j.palaeo.2019.05.014 |
Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China | |
Pei S.; Deng C.; de la Torre I.; Jia Z.; Ma D.; Li X.; Wang X. | |
发表日期 | 2019 |
ISSN | 0031-0182 |
起始页码 | 176 |
结束页码 | 189 |
卷号 | 530 |
英文摘要 | The Nihewan Basin in North China contains the densest concentration of early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites outside Africa. This paper introduces a new archaeological site complex at Madigou (MDG) that was systematically excavated from 2011 to 2014 in the northeastern part of the Nihewan Basin. The site contains fossils and well-preserved stone artefacts in fluvio-lacustrine sediments. Our magnetostratigraphic results situate the MDG sedimentary sequence in the early Brunhes normal chron and the late Matuyama reverse chron, including the Jaramillo normal subchron. The MDG artifact layers are positioned within the pre-Jaramillo Matuyama chron, with an estimated age of ca. 1.2 Ma, close to the onset of Mid-Pleistocene climate transition. The MDG core and flake technology includes bipolar flaking of siliceous dolomite cobbles, and freehand flaking of chert and brecciated chert block fragments. Mammalian fauna and pollen compositions indicate that the MDG hominins lived in an open habitat varying from lightly-wooded grassland to an ecosystem dominated by sparse steppe near the shore of the Nihewan paleolake. Our combined results in the fields of archaeology, paleontology, palynology and magnetochronology suggest that innovations in technological behavior may correlate with adaptations to high environmental variability during the start of Mid-Pleistocene climate transition. © 2019 Elsevier B.V. |
英文关键词 | Early human adaptations; Early Pleistocene; Madigou site complex; Magnetostratigraphy; Nihewan Basin; North China |
语种 | 英语 |
scopus关键词 | adaptation; archaeological evidence; climate variation; fossil record; lacustrine deposit; magnetostratigraphy; Paleolithic; palynology; Pleistocene; pollen; sedimentary sequence; China; Hebei; Nihewan Basin; Mammalia |
来源期刊 | Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/150901 |
作者单位 | Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100044, China; CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing, 100044, China; State Key Laboratory of Lithospheric Evolution, Institute of Geology and Geophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100029, China; Institute of Archaeology, University College London, 31-34 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0PY, United Kingdom; Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China; Beijing Museum of Natural History, Beijing, 100050, China |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Pei S.,Deng C.,de la Torre I.,et al. Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China[J],2019,530. |
APA | Pei S..,Deng C..,de la Torre I..,Jia Z..,Ma D..,...&Wang X..(2019).Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China.Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology,530. |
MLA | Pei S.,et al."Magnetostratigraphic and archaeological records at the Early Pleistocene site complex of Madigou (Nihewan Basin): Implications for human adaptations in North China".Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 530(2019). |
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