Abstract: A Paleolithic site buried from the tides of Shenhu Bay was discovered in January 2009 by several tourists. The same year, archaeologists from the Fujian Museum and Jinjiang Museum launched an investigation and test excavation of this new site.The site located at the coast of southeastern of Jinjiang City, Fujian Province, with geographic coordinates of 24°38'16.2''N, 118°38'49.4''E. Together with evidence for ancient forests and ancient oysters, this Paleolithic site shows a peculiar landscape. A total of 87 stone artifacts and several mammalian fossils including Elephurus maximus, Bubalus sp.and Cervidea were collected. The stone assemblage includes cores, flakes, chunks, scrapers, choppers and points. Only three kinds of raw materials including quartzite, crystal and quartz were indentified. Direct hammer percussion and bipolar percussion techniques were used. Most of flakes were flat platform type, and the size of the artifacts was mainly medium(30-100mm), which was different from the Pebble Tool Industry(Main Industry) in South China.Rough retouch and variability of tool shapes suggests tools being used in an expedient fashion. With evidence from Quaternary geology, geomorphology, mammalian fossils and chronology from an adjacent area, we infer the age of the cultural layer may be 10-15ka BP.

Key words: Shenhu Bay; Jinjiang; Late Paleolithic; Lithics; Mammalian fauna