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Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China

Shi-Xia Yang
Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
State Key Laboratory of Loess and Quaternary Geology, Institute of Earth Environment
Jia-Fu Zhang
Jian-Ping Yue
Anhui University [Hefei]
Rachel Wood
  • Fonction : Auteur
Brigham Young University
Yu-Jie Guo
Han Wang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Laboratoire Intelligence Artificielle de Confiance pour l’Instrumentation (CEA, LIST)
Département d'instrumentation Numérique (CEA, LIST)
Wu-Gan Luo
  • Fonction : Auteur
Yue Zhang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Shenzhen Audencia Financial Technology Institute
Emeline Raguin
Weizmann Institute of Science [Rehovot, Israël]
Ke-Liang Zhao
Center for Excellence in Life and Palaeoenvironment
Yu-Xiu Zhang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Fa-Xiang Huan
  • Fonction : Auteur
Ya-Mei Hou
  • Fonction : Auteur
Chinese Academy of Sciences [Beijing]
Wei-Wen Huang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Yi-Ren Wang
  • Fonction : Auteur
Jin-Ming Shi
  • Fonction : Auteur
Bao-Yin Yuan
  • Fonction : Auteur
Andreu Ollé
Área de prehistòria, Departament d'història i història de l'Art
Alain Queffelec
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
CV
Li-Ping Zhou
Peking University [Beijing]
Cheng-Long Deng
Institute of Geology and Geophysics [Beijing]
College of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Beijing]
Francesco D’errico
De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie
SFF Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour
Michael Petraglia

Résumé

The geographic expansion of Homo sapiens populations into southeastern Europe occurred by ∼47,000 years ago (∼47 ka), marked by Initial Upper Palaeolithic (IUP) technology. H. sapiens was present in western Siberia by ∼45 ka, and IUP industries indicate early entries by ∼50 ka in the Russian Altai and 46–45 ka in northern Mongolia. H. sapiens was in northeastern Asia by ∼40 ka, with a single IUP site in China dating to 43–41 ka. Here we describe an IUP assemblage from Shiyu in northern China, dating to ∼45 ka. Shiyu contains a stone tool assemblage produced by Levallois and Volumetric Blade Reduction methods, the long-distance transfer of obsidian from sources in China and the Russian Far East (800–1,000 km away), increased hunting skills denoted by the selective culling of adult equids and the recovery of tanged and hafted projectile points with evidence of impact fractures, and the presence of a worked bone tool and a shaped graphite disc. Shiyu exhibits a set of advanced cultural behaviours, and together with the recovery of a now-lost human cranial bone, the record supports an expansion of H. sapiens into eastern Asia by about 45 ka.

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Shi-Xia Yang, Jia-Fu Zhang, Jian-Ping Yue, Rachel Wood, Yu-Jie Guo, et al.. Initial Upper Palaeolithic material culture by 45,000 years ago at Shiyu in northern China. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2024, 8 (3), pp.552-563. ⟨10.1038/s41559-023-02294-4⟩. ⟨hal-04568946⟩

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