L’industrie du Paléolithique inférieur du site de Nanposhan, Bassin de Bose, Province autonome du Guangxi Zhuang, R.P. de Chine

Abstract

The Nanposhan site Nanposhan is an open-air prehistoric site, located on the fourth terrace (T4, Bose Basin) of the left bank of the Youjiang tributary of the Bose River, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Province (China). This site yielded an abundant lithic industry (516 pieces). This lithic assemblage is mainly formed by abundant pebble tools, including choppers, rare picks and bifaces. The other flake tools, of small dimensions, which we call “small tools”, are rare and little retouched. According to the various typo-technological analyzes carried out on the Nanposhan industry, it belongs to the Lower Paleolithic.