Xishi Paleolithic Site is located in the second terrace on the left bank of the upper reaches of Weishui River. A Holocene-Late Pleistocene stratigraphic accumulation with a thickness of 3 meters was found under the modern cultivated soil layer, and a compact paleolithic cultural relic with a thickness of about 60 cm was found in the lower part of ②C layer belonging to Malan loess accumulation. According to the samples of carbon particles unearthed in the same layer, the age of this cultural layer is determined to be about 22,000 years ago (uncorrected). More than 8,500 stone products, such as stone hammers, stone cores, stone chips, stone leaves, fine stone leaves, tools, stones and fragments, have been unearthed from Xishi Paleolithic Site. The raw materials of stone products are mainly flint, with occasional stone, agate and sandstone. Through the observation, measurement and preliminary analysis of stone products unearthed from Xishi Paleolithic Site, the typical stone leaves, stone cores, stone leaves and various stone products produced in the process of making stone leaves are determined. Xishi Paleolithic Site is a stone factory mainly based on stone leaf technology in the late Paleolithic period.
The Paleolithic site of Xishi was first discovered in China and central East Asia, with stone leaf industry as the core. This discovery provides very important evidence for studying the characteristics of human behavior in the late Paleolithic period in China, which will rewrite the existing traditional understanding of the cultural development in the late Paleolithic period in China and East Asia, and provide a new perspective for the study of important prehistoric archaeological topics such as the emergence of modern human behavior in this area. The newly discovered stone leaf industry in Xishi site, with its rich cultural connotation and clear chronology, paleoenvironmental materials and evidence, provides very important new information for understanding how ancient humans adapted to the abundant flint resources in the Central Plains, especially near the site, and systematically produced stone leaves, further expanding our understanding of the history of human development in the hinterland of China and East Asia in the late Paleolithic period.
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Source of information: Zhengzhou Cultural Relics Bureau
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