%0 Journal Article
%T PRELIMINARY STUDY OF CAVE DEVELOPMENT AND BURIAL ENVIRONMENT AT THE YUNXI MAN SITE<br>郧西人遗址洞穴发育与埋藏环境初步观察*
%A Wu Xianzhu
%A Pei Shuwen
%A Wu Xiujie
%A Liu Wu
%A <br>武仙竹
%A 裴树文
%A 吴秀杰
%A 刘武
%J 第四纪研究
%D 2007
%I 
%X The Huanglongdong Cave site (named "Yunxi Man Site"), which was discovered in 2004, is an important paleoanthropological site of Late Pleistocene in China. It is located in the Lishiguan Village, Xiangkou Town, Yunxi County, Hubei Province. The site has been excavated by a joint archeological team consisting of archaeologists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (Chinese Academy of Sciences), the Institute of Archeology and Cultural Relics of Hubei Province and the Cultural Bureau of Yunxi County for three times from 2004 to 2006. A large number of human remains (including human teeth, stone artifacts, bone artifacts), mammalian faunal remains, and other related materials were unearthed. U-series and ESR dating of the cultural layer have yielded an age of 100ka. This is the first Late Pleistocene hominid fossil site modern humans lived in China.The Huanglongdong Cave is located in the south piedmont of the East Qingling Orogenic Zone, with the Yunxi-Yunxian Fault passing through its adjacent areas. The cave was developed in the cryptomerous limestone and marlite of Doushantuo Formation of the Upper Sinian System. The well developed tight fold and fault form the base of the karst system. The former process of the cave development shows fracture water dissolution and the channel cave system was formed gradually as time went on. It should be noted that the cultural layer was covered by the upper layer of travertine, indicating that the human remains were buried in situ. Faunal deposit analysis indicated that the climate was warm and dry when hominids were living in the Huanglongdong Cave. The stone assemblage not only shows a close tie with the flake tool tradition in North China, but also express the pebble tool tradition in South China. It can be inferred that the hominids possibly entered the Huanglongdong Cave from the upper window-like holes on the roof instead of the current entrance of the cave.
%K Late Pleistocene
%K Huanglongdong Cave
%K Yunxi Man
%K karst development
%K burial environment<br>更新世晚期
%K 黄龙洞
%K 郧西人
%K 岩溶发育
%K 埋藏环境
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