Dingcun ruins

Japanese: 丁村遺跡 - ていそんいせき
Dingcun ruins

A group of Middle Paleolithic ruins near Dingcun, Xiangfen County, Shanxi Province, China. They are distributed over an 11-kilometer stretch on the terraces on the left bank of the lower Fen River. They were discovered in 1953, and excavated the following year by the Institute of Vertebrate Paleozoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The stone tools unearthed at 10 sites during the excavation included core stone tools such as hammers, mallets, and stone balls, and flake stone tools such as triangular points and large and small scrapers, with the latter predominating, and scrapers made from large flakes being particularly prominent. The sites are thought to belong to the same culture of the same era, and are known as the Dingcun culture. Three human teeth were discovered at site 100, which is said to be close to Neanderthals.

[Hajime Kataoka]

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Japanese:

中国、山西省襄汾(じょうふん)県丁村付近の旧石器時代中期の遺跡群。汾河(ふんが)下流域の左岸の段丘上に11キロメートルにわたって分布する。1953年に発見され、翌年に中国科学院古脊椎(せきつい)動物研究所によって発掘調査が行われた。発掘によって10か所の地点から出土した石器には、打器、握槌(にぎりつち)状石器、石球などの石核石器と、三稜尖頭器(さんりょうせんとうき)、大形および小形の削器などの剥片(はくへん)石器とがあるが、後者が主体をなし、とくに大形剥片を利用した削器が目だつ。各地点は同一時代の同一の文化に属すると考えられ、丁村文化とよばれている。なお、第100地点から3本の人類の歯が発見されており、ネアンデルタール人に近いという。

[片岡 肇]

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