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DOI	10.1002/jqs.3151
	Site formation processes at Donggutuo: a major Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan Basin, North China
	Jia, Zhenxiu; Pei, Shuwen; Benito-Calvo, Alfonso; Ma, Dongdong; Sanchez-Romero, Laura; Wei, Qi
通讯作者	Jia, ZX (通讯作者)
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0267-8179
EISSN	1099-1417
起始页码	621
结束页码	632
卷号	34 期号:8
英文摘要	Understanding site formation processes is crucial for interpreting archaeological context patterns and hominin behaviour as these affect the preserved condition of a site and the integrity of archaeological remains. The fluvio-lacustrine sequences in the Nihewan Basin of North China are rich sources of early Pleistocene archaeological sites, which offer an important opportunity to investigate human evolution and adapted behaviours in East Asia. Although many Palaeolithic sites have been reported from the Nihewan Basin, North China, few of them focus on site formation processes before interpreting the hominin behaviour patterns. Here, we present a site formation study of four archaeological layers (Layers 6D, 6C, 6B and 6A) in Trench 1 from the Donggutuo (namely DGT-T1) site in the Nihewan Basin with an age of 1.1 Ma. Through the study of sedimentary contexts, spatial distributions of artefacts and fossils, intra-assemblage category ratios, debitage size distributions, lithic abrasion, artifact orientation and planar dip, our results show that all the layers had been disturbed by low-energy sheet wash across the lake shore setting, but to differing extents. The post-depositional disturbance caused by water decreased from the lower to the upper layers, from Layer 6D to Layer 6A. This indicates that the archaeological remains in DGT-T1 have not been subject to significant natural modifications and are thus suitable for studying early hominin behaviour in North China.
关键词	EARLY HUMAN COLONIZATION OLDUVAI BED I ORIENTATION PATTERNS PALEOLITHIC SITES AIN HANECH AGE ASSEMBLAGES EVOLUTION HOMINIDS HUMANS
英文关键词	Donggutuo (DGT) site; Early Pleistocene; Nihewan Basin; site formation process
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS记录号	WOS:000490740300001
来源期刊	JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE
来源机构	中国科学院青藏高原研究所
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/259591
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jia, Zhenxiu,Pei, Shuwen,Benito-Calvo, Alfonso,et al. Site formation processes at Donggutuo: a major Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan Basin, North China[J]. 中国科学院青藏高原研究所,2019,34(8).
APA	Jia, Zhenxiu,Pei, Shuwen,Benito-Calvo, Alfonso,Ma, Dongdong,Sanchez-Romero, Laura,&Wei, Qi.(2019).Site formation processes at Donggutuo: a major Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan Basin, North China.JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE,34(8).
MLA	Jia, Zhenxiu,et al."Site formation processes at Donggutuo: a major Early Pleistocene site in the Nihewan Basin, North China".JOURNAL OF QUATERNARY SCIENCE 34.8(2019).