This paper reviews some of the main advances in our understanding of human evolution
over the last 1 million years, presenting a holistic overview of a field defined by …

Lithic technological development in the Late Pleistocene of South China has received
substantial attention in recent years due to a series of recent fossil discoveries in the region …

The Evolution of Paleolithic Technologies provides a novel perspective on long-term
trajectories of evolutionary change in Paleolithic tools and tool-makers. Members of the …

Considerations of materiality and object-oriented approaches have greatly influenced the
development of archaeological theory in recent years. Yet, Palaeolithic archaeology has …

Handaxes represent one of the most temporally enduring and geographically widespread of
Palaeolithic artifacts and thus comprised a key technological strategy of many hominin …

The “Acheulean” is comprised of individual knapping events undertaken by individual
hominins. In other words, it is a particular component of hominin behavior that we draw out …

Edge angle is widely considered to be a morphological attribute that influences the
functional performance of lithic technologies. However, the comparative performance …

A deeper understanding of the eastern Asian Late Pleistocene paleoanthropological record
will contribute to some resolution of the modern human origins debate. Here, I review the …

Handaxe-bearing sites in China are currently known to occur in a number of alluvial basins,
the best known being Dingcun, Bose and Luonan. Bose in the south and Luonan in central …

本文从考古文化的角度论证中国乃至东亚古人类演化的连续性. 通过对石制品原料特点及开发
利用方式, 石器制作技术, 石制品类型, 形态与组合特点, 区域文化传统演变等方面的分析 …