Site of early Paleolithic Age discovered in Guangdong local derives | early Paleolithic site of human activity _ news

　　First discovery of early Paleolithic relics of Guangdong local human activity pushed hundreds of thousands of years before the

Xinhuanet, Guangzhou, June 11 (reporters and)-Yu in yunfu city, Guangdong Province, archaeologists recently discovered in luoding city, and a number of Paleolithic sites, including hand picks, collected specimens of more than 200 pieces of stone products, including hand axes, the earliest era to the early Paleolithic age. According to reports, Guangdong has been found, this is the first of ancient cultural relics, the Zhoukoudian Peking Man earlier, Guangdong is known ahead of time for hundreds of thousands of years of human activity.

"This is the first discovery of early Paleolithic relic in Guangdong, fills a gap in Paleolithic archaeology in Guangdong, also fills a Paleolithic archaeological research in South China Guangdong a blank map. "The Guangdong Provincial Institute of cultural relics Deputy Director Deng Hongwen 10th told reporters.

According to archaeological project manager Liu Suoqiang's introduction, archaeologists found in the investigation phase, about 20 square kilometres in a very focused manner appear more than more than 60 old stone age relics, mainly located in the middle reaches of the Xijiang River tributary of the Nan River on both sides of the first floor. According to the geomorphology, stratigraphic accumulation and cultural relics face judgment, newly discovered stone age earliest age in the early Palaeolithic. Previously found in Qujiang Lion Rock in Northern Guangdong, Guangdong as early as "residents" Maba man fossils from about 130,000 years ago, Paleolithic mid-term.

10th oldest found so far he Kou Zhen, Yu Mo mountain ruins the scene saw, the level drops more than 10 meters of the mining distribution in a large clay slopes, over more than 10 engineers and workers in a total area of more than 200 square meters of the mining protective excavation work on the plane. Liu Suoqiang told reporters at the scene, the area is an ancient Riverbed under 5 meters above the ground, high river 40 meters from now. Found in the excavation of trial and an axe, hand picks, chopping, flakes, cores, blocks and stone, pebbles are locally in the ancient Riverbed of the ancients, after a strike to dig tubers and gathering wild plants and hunting.

"Life in the ancient humans have a certain size and activity time is relatively long. "Liu Suoqiang said. Because of the reticulate red clay of the river terraces where the site is a strongly acidic soils, it is very difficult for the burial of organic matter preserved environment, make it nearly impossible to find human, animal and plant fossils.

The archaeological excavations by the Guangdong Provincial Institute of cultural relics and Archaeology Research Institute, Beijing University Department of Archaeology Museum, yunfu City Museum and Museum, Yu, was launched in late April. Preliminary archaeological survey, beginning as early as end of 2012, results of surveys in 2013 to be from Beijing, Hunan, Guangxi and other places of archaeological experts confirmed.

Deng Hongwen said the archaeological survey to achieve a breakthrough in the way, Guangdong limestone caves and the concerns from the previous investigation of brick factory, transferred to the ancient river terraces, and Guangdong's actual environmental conditions. The Guangdong Provincial Institute of cultural relics and archaeology of infrastructural development project is the successful example of combining archaeology and research initiative.

Concrete made of the stone age, Deng Hongwen said scientific dating of the work will be conducted later. Ruins excavations are still underway, the next phase of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of archaeology will also hold an expert meeting, to stone age specific, ancient human activities, local climate and environment and conservation and other issues were discussed.

According to reports, the Guangdong Provincial Institute of archaeology has reached an agreement with College of Beijing University Department of Archaeology Museum, built in local Paleolithic archaeology teaching and research base, plans to start.

11:00 on June 11, 2014 Xinhua NET