陕西乾县的旧石器

石制品八件,发现于陕西乾县大北沟黄土之下砂砾粘土层中,和更新世晚期的哺乳类化石伴存。另外由大北沟附近地表拾到一件手斧,和蓝田平梁的大尖状器相似,推测为旧石器时代的文化遗物。

SEVERAL PALEOLITHS FROM QIANXIAN, SHAANXI

Several stone artifacts and some mammalian fossils were recovered in 1963 in the sandy gravels under the Malan Loess at Dabeigou. Qianxian in Shaanxi. The age of the stone artifacts seems to be of Upper Pleistocene on the basis of associated fauna, such as Equus preowalskyi, Coclodonta antiquitais Mcgaloceros sp. There is another specimen made of quartzite, collected from the surface at Longtau near Dabeigou. It is large, pointed, roughly flaked alternately, with much of the original cortex left unretouchod on its basal part. The implement is similar to the heavy triangular point from Pingliang, Lantian rather than the biface from Shanugou, Ding-cun. Judging by the technique, it is believed to be of paleolithic.