人类学学报 ›› 2022, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (03): 523-534.doi: 10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2021.0020

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浅议古人类活动遗址的动物埋藏学研究方法

杜雨薇1,2,3(), 丁馨4, 裴树文1,2()   

  1. 1.中国科学院脊椎动物演化与人类起源重点实验室,中国科学院古脊椎动物与古人类研究所,北京 100044
    2.中国科学院生物演化与环境卓越创新中心,北京 100044
    3.中国科学院大学,北京 100049
    4.英国伦敦大学学院考古研究所,英国伦敦 WC1H 0PY
  • 收稿日期:2021-01-19 修回日期:2021-02-18 出版日期:2022-06-15 发布日期:2022-06-16
  • 通讯作者: 裴树文
  • 作者简介:杜雨薇,陕西西安人,博士研究生,主要从事旧石器时代考古学研究。Email: duyuwei@ivpp.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:
    科技部国家重点研发计划(2020YFC1521500);中国科学院战略性先导科技专项(B类)(XDB26000000)

A brief discussion on the approaches of taphonomic study of archaeofaunas from paleoanthropological sites

DU Yuwei1,2,3(), DING Xin4, PEI Shuwen1,2()   

  1. 1. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044
    2. CAS Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Beijing 100044
    3. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
    4. Institute of Archaeology, University College London, WC1H 0PY London, United Kingdom
  • Received:2021-01-19 Revised:2021-02-18 Online:2022-06-15 Published:2022-06-16
  • Contact: PEI Shuwen

摘要:

随着学科的发展,有关古人类活动遗址的研究手段逐渐多样化,学者们从不同研究视角分别揭示了早期人类对遗址的利用行为。近年来,作为古人类行为研究的重要分支,动物埋藏研究在阐释遗址形成过程及其背后的影响因素方面起到了重要作用。本文简要梳理了对保存有动物遗存的古人类活动遗址进行动物埋藏研究的主要方法和思路,同时,文章介绍了部分动物埋藏的典型模型与经典案例,以此对动物埋藏研究中存在的缺陷与可能的解决方式进行探讨。此外,作者对动物埋藏研究的方法演进进行了简单回顾,为解决遗址中出现的多个埋藏因素相互影响而导致的混乱及重叠现象提供了可供参考的研究思路;在此基础上,结合中国古人类活动遗址的相关研究进展,本文也对中国考古遗址相关研究的思路和方向提出了建议。

关键词: 古人类活动, 动物埋藏学, 骨骼表面痕迹, 骨骼破碎形态, 埋藏模拟研究

Abstract:

With the development of the research discipline, diversified research approaches to early human occupation reveal different occupation strategies adopted by early humans from the use of paleoanthropological sites. In recent years, as an important branch of exploring ancient human behavior, animal taphonomy plays an important role in explaining the formation processes of sites and even the influencing factors behind the site formation. This paper reviews the main approaches to taphonomic investigation of animal assemblages from paleoanthropological sites. In addition, this paper also introduces some typical models and classic research cases in order to analyze the defects and possible solutions in studying animal bone formation processes from sites. Furthermore, fundamental research methods of animal taphonomy, which are systematically reviewed by the authors, provide feasible research scopes of the taphonomic results from multiple phenomena obtained from archaeological site formation. Finally, combined with the related studies of some paleoanthropological sites in China, a discussion on the potential reference for research methods and approaches in Chinese animal taphonomy studies is also presented in the current paper.

Key words: Early human occupation, Vertebrate taphonomy, Bone surface modifications, Bone break patterns, Actualistic studies

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