Yamei H, Potts R, Baoyin Y, Zhengtang G, Deino A, Wei W, Clark J, Guangmao X, Weiwen H
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Box 643, Beijing 100044, China.
Science. 2000 Mar 3;287(5458):1622-6. doi: 10.1126/science.287.5458.1622.
Stone artifacts from the Bose basin, South China, are associated with tektites dated to 803,000 +/- 3000 years ago and represent the oldest known large cutting tools (LCTs) in East Asia. Bose toolmaking is compatible with Mode 2 (Acheulean) technologies in Africa in its targeted manufacture and biased spatial distribution of LCTs, large-scale flaking, and high flake scar counts. Acheulean-like tools in the mid-Pleistocene of South China imply that Mode 2 technical advances were manifested in East Asia contemporaneously with handaxe technology in Africa and western Eurasia. Bose lithic technology is associated with a tektite airfall and forest burning.
来自中国南方百色盆地的石器与年代测定为80.3万±3000年前的玻璃陨石有关，代表了东亚已知最古老的大型切割工具（LCT）。百色的工具制造在其LCT的定向制造、有偏向的空间分布、大规模剥落和高剥落疤痕数量方面与非洲的模式2（阿舍利）技术兼容。中国南方中更新世类似阿舍利的工具表明，模式2的技术进步在东亚与非洲和欧亚大陆西部的手斧技术同时出现。百色的石器技术与玻璃陨石空降和森林火灾有关。
