Abstract: The Fangniushan Paleolithic locality (31°55′N, 119°18′E) is situated at the south of Jiangsu Province, about 60km east to Nanjing City. From this locality 54 stone artifacts were collected in 1999.
The raw material of the artifacts is mainly quartzite sandstone. Artifacts consist of flakes, cores, scrapers, choppers, spheroids, picks, cleaver and burin, etc. The feature of the stone artifacts is close to those from Shuiyang River, Anhui Province, and is similar to that of the pebble tool —chopper /chopping tool industry in South China. The strata of the locality is middle Pleistocene in age.ca.400 —200ka B. P. by TL and ESR dating.

Key words: Paleolithic; Fangniushan locality; Jiangsu Province; Middle Pleistocene