Environmental background of evolution from the paleolithic to neolithic sulture in Nihewan Basin, North China

摘要

The relationship between the paleolithic-neolithic cultural transition and environmental evolvement has been a focus of the palepoanthropologists, archeologists, and Quaternary geolo- gists in the world. The analysis result of the paleoanthropic living environment at Yujiagou site of Nihewan Basin in the north of China shows that the microlithi culture at the Yujiagou site occurred During the opening centuries of the last deglaciation and developed markedly in the continuous Warm and dry climatic conditions from late period of last deglaciation to early postglacial.