Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1991, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (01): 34-41.

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Paleoliths from the Liao River area in Anyi, Jiangxi Province

Li Chaorong, Xu Changqing   

  • Online:1991-03-15 Published:1991-03-15

Abstract: In May 1989, a united team composed of scientific workers of IVPP, the Jiangxi Institu-te of Archaeology and Anyi Cultural Center discovered three paleolithc sites namely, Zhang-linggang, Fenghuangshan, and Shangxucun in Anyi county, Jiangxi Province.
A total of 40 stone artifacts were obtained from reddish clayon the secondterrace ofLiao River. The artifacts include cores, flakes, scrapers, points, choppers, bifaces andstoneballs. Judging from the stratigraphy and the characters of stone artifacts, these sites may bedated to be the Late Pleistocene or Middle -Upper Paleolithic archaeologically.

Key words: Liao River; Anyi; Paleoliths; Late Pleistocene