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  • Longquan Cave: an early Upper Palaeolithic site in Henan Province, China

  • Shuisheng Du, Xuan Li, Li Zhou, Haijiao Pang, Ofer Bar-Yosef, Xiaohong Wu
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 90 / Issue 352 / August 2016
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    19 July 2016, pp. 876-893
    Print publication:
    August 2016

  • The Palaeolithic sequence of East Asia differs from that of western Eurasia in that it is characterised by core-and-flake tools. Blade industries only appear late in the sequence, long after the first appearance of modern humans; bone tools and personal ornaments may therefore function as a better marker of modern human presence. Longquan Cave provides vital new evidence to this effect, with dated hearths indicating an initial occupation around 40 kya cal BP, followed by a second period of activity around 35–31 kya cal BP. They are associated with a polished bone awl and a structured division of settlement space, features typically associated with modern humans.

  • A Middle Palaeolithic bone tool from Crimea (Ukraine)

  • Ariane Burke, Francesco d'Errico
  • Journal:
    Antiquity / Volume 82 / Issue 318 / December 2008
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 843-852
    Print publication:
    December 2008

  • A fragment of equid tibia found with a Mousterian assemblage in a rockshelter in the Crimean peninsula is carefully examined. The authors show that it has been knapped like flint to produce a tool probably at a time when stone resources were becoming exhausted. This tool is thus the product of a Neanderthal response to a local need as well as proof that the technological properties of bone were known.