Contributors .................................................... i
Acknowledgments ............................................... vii
Preface
Ofer Bar-Yosef .............................................. ix
Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology: an
Introduction
Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates ................................ 1
Davidson Black and His Role in Chinese Paleoanthropology
Julie L. Cormaek ............................................. 9
Retrospect of Fifty Years of Palaeolithic Archaeology in
China
Chun Chen ................................................... 21
Biostratigraphy, Taphonomy, Palaeoenvironment and Hominid
Diet in the Middle and Late Pleistocene of China
Susan G. Keates ............................................. 37
New Palaeolithic Discoveries in the Middle Yangzi River
Region, Southern China
Youping Wang ................................................ 57
New Evidence of Hominid Behaviour from Xiaochangliang,
Northern China: Site Formation and Lithic Technology
Chen Shen and Chun Chen ..................................... 67
Taphonomy of an Early Pleistocene Archaeofauna from
Xiaochangliang, Nihewan Basin, North China
Christian E. Peterson, Chen Shen, Chun Chen, Wanyong Chen
and Yingjun Tang ............................................ 83
Faunal Approaches to Site Formation Processes at Panxian
Dadong
Lynne A. Schepartz, Deborah A. Bakken, Sari Miller-
Antonio, Christine K. Paraso and Panagiotis Karkanas ........ 99
Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of Mammalian Tooth
Enamel at Panxian Dadong Cave, Guizhou, China
W. Jack Rink, Lynne A. Schepartz, Sari Miller-Antonio,
Weiwen Huang, Yamei Hou, Deborah Bakken, Daniel Richter
and Heather L. Jones ....................................... 111
ESR Dating of Early Pleistocene Archaeological Sites
in China
Qi Chen, Tiemei Chen and Quan Yang ......................... 119
The Jinniushan Hominid in Anatomical, Chronological, and
Cultural Context
Zun'er Lu .................................................. 127
Remarks on Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology
Richard Shutler Jr. ........................................ 137
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