@article {330461,
	title = {Paleolithic culture of Longgupo and its creators},
	journal = {Quaternary International},
	volume = {354},
	year = {2014},
	month = {2014/12/15/},
	pages = {154 - 161},
	abstract = {<p>Longgupo Site at Wushan (30\&deg;51\&prime;46.8\&Prime;N, 109\&deg;39\&prime;55.8\&Prime;E), Chongqing Municipality, China was discovered in 1984. The unearthed materials include Hominidae gen. et sp. indet., stone artifacts and a large quantity of vertebrate fossils. More than 1000 stone artifacts with evident human agency such as bipolar hammer, cores, flakes, choppers, points, scrapers, proto-cleavers, drilling tools, proto-picks and proto-hand-axes have been collected from Levels 2\&ndash;15 successively. Bone accumulations of large amount of limbs of herbivores, indicating human agency, were unearthed from Levels 3\&ndash;4 and 7\&ndash;8. All of these early Paleolithic remains are termed \&ldquo;Longgupo culture\&rdquo;. The culture signifies that its creators have evolved from tool-using stage to tool-making one in their life style. Who the creators of Longgupo culture were is still a mystery. Three types of highly-evolved primate fossils have been unearthed from Longgupo Site. They are represented by a mandibular fragment with p4-m1, an upper incisor, and 14 isolated teeth of Gigantopithecus blacki respectively. All these three types could be the possible creators of Longgupo culture. On the other hand, we cannot exclude a possibility that an ancient human still unknown but similar to Homo habilis could be revealed with the forthcoming excavations.</p>
},
	keywords = {Human agency, Limb bone accumulations, Longgupo culture, Stone artifacts},
	isbn = {1040-6182},
	doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2014.04.003},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1040618214002110},
	author = {Wei, Guangbiao and Huang, Wanbo and Chen, Shaokun and He, Cunding and Pang, Libo and Wu, Yan}
}
