A SUMMARY OF STRATIGRAPHICAL AND PALEONTOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN THE LOWER LAYERS OF CHOUKOUTIEN, LOCALITY1, AND ON THE CHRONOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE SITE

摘要

＜正＞ In giving a summary of early and middle Pleistocene Cervidae of Europe and Asia （Kahlke and Hu, 1957）, we came to the conclusion to correlate （on paleontological evidence） the Choukoutien deposits of locality 1, Sinanthropus-Site, with the closing phases of the second glacial or the early phases of the European Holsteinian （=late Mindel or early Mindel/Riss of Alpine stratigraphy）. Nevertheless we pointed out, that the mammalian fauna of locality 1 faunistically already belongs to the palaearctic block of the "Great Interglacial" （=Holsteinian） s.l.Pei, W. C. and Kurtn, B.——only refer to the most recent studies to this time——suggested an early middle Pleistocene correlation （Cromerian of European stratigraphy）, but later on, however, Kurtn, on the evidence of the results of pollen-analysis as carried out by Y. Vasary, suggested a correlation of Choukoutien （locality 1） with the Mindel Ⅱ/Elster of European stratigraphy. This date （Mindel Ⅱ/Elster=maximum of the second glacial-complex of Europe） will be discussed in this paper.