Abstract: Lixin site situated at the fourth terrace of the Fuer River, to the northeast of Lixin village, Yongqing town, Antu city, Jilin province was discovered in 2006. More than 70 stone artifacts were collected from the site, including cores, stone hammers, choppers, hand-axe, points, flakes, microblades, used flakes, scrapers and so on. Six of them were discovered from the loess strata. The stone assemblage is mainly composed of medium-scale and large-scale ones, and the materials are mainly cobbles which can be found from the local river bed. The stone artifacts present the characteristics of pebble-tool tradition. According to the characteristics of the deposits ( no polish on the stone artifacts, and no pottery), the strata yielding the stone artifacts and the microblade excavated from the strata, we guess that the site is probably Late Paleolithic. Of course, the pebble-tools present aboriginality, and the time maybe much earlier.

Key words: Paleolithic; Lixin site; Pebble-tool tradition