300,000-year-old wooden tools from Gantangqing, southwest China

IF 44.7 1区 综合性期刊 Q1 MULTIDISCIPLINARY SCIENCES
Science Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI:10.1126/science.adr8540
Jian-Hui Liu, Qi-Jun Ruan, Jun-Yi Ge, Yong-Jiang Huang, Xiao-Ling Zhang, Jia Liu, Shu-Feng Li, Hui Shen, Yuan Wang, Thomas A. Stidham, Cheng-Long Deng, Sheng-Hua Li, Fei Han, Ying-Shuai Jin, Kieran O’Gorman, Bo Li, Robin Dennell, Xing Gao
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Evidence of Early and Middle Pleistocene wooden implements is exceptionally rare, and existing evidence has been found only in Africa and western Eurasia. We report an assemblage of 35 wooden implements from the site of Gantangqing in southwestern China, which was found associated with stone tools, antler billets (soft hammers), and cut-marked bones and is dated from ~361,000 to ~250,000 years at a 95% confidence interval. The wooden implements include digging sticks and small, complete, hand-held pointed tools. The sophistication of many of these tools offsets the seemingly “primitive” aspects of stone tool assemblages in the East Asian Early Paleolithic. This discovery suggests that wooden implements might have played an important role in hominin survival and adaptation in Middle Pleistocene East Asia.
中国西南部甘塘庆30万年前的木制工具
早更新世和中更新世木制工具的证据非常罕见,现有的证据仅在非洲和欧亚大陆西部发现。我们报告了在中国西南部甘塘庆遗址发现的35件木器,这些木器与石器、鹿角坯(软锤)和切割过的骨头有关,其年代为~361,000至~250,000年,可信区间为95%。木制工具包括挖掘棒和小的、完整的、手持的尖工具。许多这些工具的复杂程度抵消了东亚旧石器时代早期石器组合中看似“原始”的方面。这一发现表明,木制工具可能在中更新世东亚地区的人类生存和适应中发挥了重要作用。
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