Use-wear evidence confirms the earliest hafted chipped-stone adzes of Upper Palaeolithic in northern China

• 来源期刊: 科学通报(英文版)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: 旧石器时代晚期 中国北方 磨损 证据 石材加工工具 木工工具 中国网站 技术分析
• 年，卷（期）: 2010,（3）
• 所属期刊栏目: ARTICLES
• 页码范围: 268-275
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: TP393.098 TS933
• 语种: 英文

摘要

Chipped-stone adze-shaped objects (ASOs) were identified from a few Upper Palaeolithic sites in northern China. Its morpho- logical form resembles to ground-stone type-specific adze, but the function of the ASO has never been assessed. The objective of this study is to investigate the use function of this particular tool type recovered from the Hutouliang site in the Nihewan Basin of northern China. In this study, the lithic use-wear analysis is applied to examining microscopically edge-damages and sur- fac...