Abstract: Fifty-six Paleolithic sites were discovered in the Danjiangkou Reservoir area of the South- North Water Transfer Project in 1994 with more than 624 stone artifacts collected on the surface or found in situ at these sites. These stone artifacts included cores, flakes, points, scrapers, choppers, chopping-tools, stone ball, picks, cleavers and handaxes.
The stone artifacts were mostly large in size and were made from the local gravels. This stone assemblage is characteristic of the main stone industry of South China and is important in comparative studies with the non-Chinese lithic industries.

Key words: Danjiangkou Reservoir; Pebble2tool industry; Handaxes; Paleolithic; Cultural communication