Mode of débitage and technical cognition of hominids at the Guanyindong site

作     者：LI YingHua HOU YaMei BOEDA Eric 

作者机构：Department of History Wuhan University Wuhan 430072 China C.N.R.S.-UMR7041 Anthropologie des Techniques des Espaces et des Territoires aux Plio-Pleistocene Maison de I'Archeologie et de I'Ethnologie Nanterre cedex 92023 France Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044 China Joint Laboratory of Human Evolution and Archaeometry Chinese Academy of Sciences Beijing 100044 China 

出 版 物：《Chinese Science Bulletin》 (CHINESE SCIENCE BULLETIN)

年 卷 期：2009年第54卷第21期

页      面：3864-3871页

核心收录：

学科分类：12[管理学] 120202[管理学-企业管理（含：财务管理、市场营销、人力资源管理）] 1202[管理学-工商管理] 1201[管理学-管理科学与工程(可授管理学、工学学位)] 

基　　金：Supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006 CB806400) National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40872023 and J0630965) Knowledge Innovation Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences 

主　　题：技术学习 认知模式 原始人类 网站 旧石器时代 行为模式 技术经济 人类学家 

摘      要：Exploring and interpreting the mode of cognition and behavioral patterns of prehistoric hunter-gatherers is always one of the main goals of current Paleolithic research. In the 1940s, French prehistorians proposed the technological method for studying lithic assemblages which opened a brand-new perspective on the prehistoric domain. In the 1960s, French ethnographer and anthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan proposed the concept chane opératoire and established the theory of lithic technological study. After the 1980s, the concept chane opératoire was substituted for two different but complementary concepts: techno-cognition and techno-economy, which contributed not only to revealing the technical knowledge and know-how applied during lithic production but also to interpreting the technical behavior of prehistoric hunter-gatherers from social and economic viewpoints. The lithic technological study of the Guanyindong site, presented in this paper, was carried out for the first time by applying lithic technological method developed by French prehistorians to the Chinese materials. Our analytical results demonstrated that the débitage system of Guanyindong is quite distinct from the concept Levallois largely used in Europe, Near-East and Africa. The differentiation between these two débitage modes may contribute to exploring and interpreting the relationship in Middle Paleolithic between China and Europe, Near-East and Africa.