%0 Journal Article
%T PEKING MAN''''S ENVIRONMENT AND INDUSTRY<br>北京猿人的环境与文化
%A Xu Qinqi
%A Dong Wei
%A Liu Jinyi
%A <br>徐钦琦
%A 董为
%A 刘金毅
%J 第四纪研究
%D 1999
%I 
%X Locality 1 of Zhoukoudian was the home of Peking Man. The latter lived therefor a very long period. The thickness of the deposits at Locality 1 is more than 30meters. Prof. Jia Lanpo divided the deposits into 10 layers. Peking Man experiencedthree warm stages and three cold ones, i. e. three glacial cycles or glacial years.During these long periods, Peking Man's industry can be divided into three stages:the early, middle and late stages. Two great leaps of Peking Man's tool makingtechniques have been observed f (1) The transition from the early stage to the middleone, which took place around the boundary of layer 8 and layer 7, (2) The transitionfrom the middle stage tO the late one, which took place around the boundary of layer6 and layer 5.It is very interesting that these three stages coincide very well with three glacialcycles or glacial years. Is it an accident or is there any corest relationship?The two great leaps of Peking Man's tool making techniques both took place atthe end of the cold stage or at the beginning of warm stage f the transition of theearly stage to the middle one took place at the boundary of oxygen isotopic stage 12and stage 11; the transition from the middle to the late one took place at theboundary of oxygen isotopic stage 10 and stage 9.After paleontologists and paleoclimatologists, the biological evolutionary events inthe late Cenozoic are characterized by the last appearance of old taxons and the firstappearance of new ones. These events always took place at the end of cold stages orat the beginning of warm stages. It is even interesting that the two great leaps of toolmaking technique of Peking Man took place also at the end of cold stages or at thebeginning of warm stages.In the Chinese traditional culture, people pay special attention to the effects ofthe spring. If we divide a glacial year into spring, summer, antumn and winter, thenthe two great leaps of tool making technique of Peking Man and the biologicalevolutionary eventS in the late Cenozoic took place in the spring of the glacial year.It is worth for further study.
%K Peking Man
%K glacial year
%K tool making technique<br>北京猿人
%K 冰川年
%K 石器制作技术
%K 环境
%K 文化
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