Science. 1973 Jan 26;179(4071):335-40. doi: 10.1126/science.179.4071.335.
The evidence presented here indicates that man lived in the eastern part of the Beringian refugium before the peak of the late Wisconsin glaciation (27). He had sharp, stone tools intended for working bone and means of breaking large mammoth bones. Probably he hunted mammoth and caribou, and prepared the skins of the caribou for use as clothing and perhaps shelter. It is possible that he migrated to southern North America, although evidence for the presence of man there prior to the peak of the Wisconsin glaciation is at present in dispute (28). We do not know whether his culture should be classified as Mousteroid or Aurignacoid in Müller-Beck's scheme (23), whose criteria are taken from stone implements of which we have none, although we infer their presence. Our data suggest that in Beringia, and therefore probably in Siberia and the Far East, the transition from Middle Paleolithic to Upper Paleolithic levels of technology occurred at a relatively early date. This raises the larger question: Did the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic occur simultaneously in many parts of the world, or did it begin in and spread from one area (23)?
这里提供的证据表明，人类在威斯康星冰期鼎盛期之前（27）就生活在白令海峡避难所的东部。他们有用于加工骨头的锋利石器和破开大型猛犸象骨头的工具。他可能猎取猛犸象和驯鹿，并准备驯鹿的皮来做衣服，也许还用来做庇护所。他可能迁徙到了北美南部，尽管目前对于人类在威斯康星冰期鼎盛期之前出现在那里的证据存在争议（28）。我们不知道他的文化是否应该按照穆勒-贝克的方案（23）归入莫斯特型或阿舍利型，因为我们没有他所依据的石器工具的样本，尽管我们推断它们是存在的。我们的数据表明，在白令海峡地区，因此可能在西伯利亚和远东地区，从中石器时代向旧石器时代晚期的技术过渡发生在一个相对较早的时期。这就提出了一个更大的问题：从中石器时代向旧石器时代晚期的过渡是否同时发生在世界的许多地方，还是它始于一个地区并从那里传播开来（23）？
