Acta Anthropologica Sinica >

2023 , Vol. 42 >Issue 01: 122 - 128

DOI: https://doi.org/10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2022.0062

Excavation/Investigation Reports

A preliminary report on the excavation of Fodongdi site in Gengma, Yunnan Province

  • Feng GAO ,
  • Shixia YANG ,
  • Xinying ZHOU ,
  • Qijun RUAN ,
  • Faxiang HUAN ,
  • Linshan HE ,
  • Kaiwei QIU ,
  • Bo YANG ,
  • Yiren WANG ,
  • Qingjiang YANG ,
  • Jian WANG ,
  • Hui SHEN ,
  • Keliang ZHAO ,
  • Xiaoqiang LI
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  • 1. Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Kunming 650118
    2. Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044
    3. Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100044
    4. University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049
    5. Lincang Prefecture Administration of Cultural Relics, Lincang 677099
    6. Shanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology, Taiyuan 030001

Received date: 2022-06-21

  Revised date: 2022-08-18

  Online published: 2023-02-20

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Abstract

The Fodongdi site is located at Mengjian village, Gengma County, Lincang City, Yunnan Province. It is situated on the north bank of Nanting River, in a Permian limestone cave with an entrance towards southeast. The site was discovered in 2016~2017, and excavated in 2017~2018 by a joint team of the Yunnan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Lincang Prefecture Administration of Cultural Relics, etc. The excavation exposed an area of 20 m2. A plenty of remains were unearthed, including lithic artifacts, fauna fossils, and flora fossils. Based on the results of primary sedimentary and chronological analysis, the prehistoric cultural layers were dated back to 18,400~14,000 BP, and divided into three phases. As a prehistoric site located in the tropical-subtropical region, the Fodongdi site provide some new data to interpret the adaptation behavior of prehistory humans in a specific ecological context during Late Pleistocene.

Key words： Yunnan Province; Fodongdi site; cave deposits; Upper Paleolithic; lithic artefacts

Cite this article

Feng GAO , Shixia YANG , Xinying ZHOU , Qijun RUAN , Faxiang HUAN , Linshan HE , Kaiwei QIU , Bo YANG , Yiren WANG , Qingjiang YANG , Jian WANG , Hui SHEN , Keliang ZHAO , Xiaoqiang LI . A preliminary report on the excavation of Fodongdi site in Gengma, Yunnan Province[J]. Acta Anthropologica Sinica, 2023 , 42(01) : 122 -128 . DOI: 10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2022.0062

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