福建漳州旧石器调查报告

本文报道最近在福建漳州地区发现的15处旧石器地点的石制品。其中ZP003地点出土的石制品有两个层位。根据地层对比,下文化层可能为旧石器中期;上文化层和其他各地点属旧石器晚期。石制品包括石核、石片、刮削器、砍砸器等,大小均有,其工业性质与原发现的漳州莲花池山的组合相近。

Preliminary Report on the Paleolithic Remains from Red Clay of Zhangzhou, Fujian Province

Fifteen Paleolithic sites were discovered in north-west part of Zhangzhou City in August,2003.Sixty-seven pieces of stone artifacts have been unearthed from upper and lower brick red clay beds,11 pieces are collected on surface.The stone artifacts consist of cores,flakes,stone hammers,scrapers,chopper or chopping tools,points and pick.All of there were made of cobbles or broken rocks and crudely fashioned by stone hammer.Besides point,most of stone tools are rather large.The raw materials include quartzite,quartz-sandstone,vein quartz and volcanic rocks.The characteristics of the artifacts found in Zhangzhou indicate that they are similar to those found in the Lianhuashan Site of Zhangzhou County.Red clay deposits are widely distributed in Zhangzhou area.At the section of ZP003 site,the red clay sediment sequence consists of 4 parts from bottom to top:1)Reddish yellow reticulated red clay;2)thick layer of reddish brown red clay;3)lower brick red clay;4)upper brick red clay.There are gravel beds or sandy gravels are intercalated between the neighboring red clay layers(see Fig.1).Author suggests that the lower brick red clay belongs to early-Late Pleistocene and upper brick red clay belongs to late-Late Pleistocene.So the lower cultural layer may be of Middle Paleolithic and upper cultural layer of ZP003 Site and other sites may be attributed to late Paleolithic.