摘要
实践证明,Movius在本世纪40年代建立的东亚、东南亚旧石器分类体系有严重缺陷。经过厘定,目前在欧洲和非洲通用的砍斫器,手斧、薄刃斧、手镐、球状器和刮削器等分类概念,也适用于东亚、东南亚旧石器初期的重型工具工业。
Although H. Movius had established his system in 1940s, the typology in Paleolithic assemblages of East and Southeast Asia remains to be solved. Movius' system based on the stone assemblages from Burma (Anyathian) and Java (Patjitanian) consists of three new categories, chopping-tools, hand-adzes and proto-hand-axes, and two re-defined categories, choppers and scrapers. Unfortunately, this system is not a good typology to a certain extent because its categories are hot 'mutually exclusive', 'not overlap' and 'exhaust the variability in the artifact collection' as pointed by L.G. Freeman in 1977. Many facts have shown that Movius' system isn't very helpful to the development of the Paleolithic Archaeology in East and Southeast Asia.
In vies of the materials from China, Burma, Java etc., the author of the present paper suggests that the following categories commonly used in Europe and Africa are also suitable to East and Southeast Asia. They are chopper, handaxe, cleaver, pick, spheroid and scraper.
出处
《人类学学报》
CSCD
北大核心
1993年第4期297-304,共8页
Acta Anthropologica Sinica
基金
中国科学院特别支持费资助 (课题号920402)
