湖北郧西黄龙洞古人类遗址2006年发掘报告

2004—2005年,在湖北省郧西县境内的黄龙洞的两次发掘中,发现了5枚人类牙齿化石、20余件石制品及大量的动物化石。初步分析显示这是一处重要的更新世晚期的人类遗址。我们在2006年对该遗址进行了第三次发掘,又发现了2枚人类牙齿化石、11件古人类打制的石制品与6件骨制工具、1500余件动物化石以及其它古人类活动证据。野外工作期间我们还对黄龙洞洞穴堆积及山体地貌的考察,在此基础上对该洞穴发育及古人类在洞穴内的生活状况进行了初步推测。本文介绍了2006年的野外工作情况。

The 2006 Excavation of Huanglong Cave in Yunxi County, Hubei

The Huanglong Cave site,which is located in the Lishiguan village,Xiangkou town,Yunxi County,Hubei Province,is an important late Pleistocene human fossil site of China.After the discovery of the site in 2004,two excavations were carried out in Huanglong Cave in 2004 and 2005,respectively.From October 21 to November 20,2006,it was excavated again by a joint archaeological team including scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology(Chinese Academy of Sciences),Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics of Hubei Province and the Cultural Bureau of Yunxi County.The new excavation unearthed two human teeth,a large number of cultural remains(11 stone artifacts and 6 bone artifacts),and more than 1500 mammalian faunal remains.During the excavation,we also surveyed the cave deposits and accessed the geomorphologic character around the cave.The cave developmental process,evidence for human occupation behaviors and other related issues are discussed in the paper.