旧石器时代环境考古学以研究旧石器时代人类与环境相互作用关系(过去人地关系)为目标,随着材料积累、科学技术进步和研究方法发展,中国北方地区的旧石器时代环境考古学研究在最近三十年发展显著。从古人类对地质资源、石料资源和动植物资源的开发、利用策略角度回顾了相关研究成果,综述了古人类对环境变化事件的响应和行为适应研究,并分别从迁移适应和技术适应两个方面进行了讨论,指出旧石器时代环境考古学的发展需要考古学家与古环境研究学者开展密切合作。
Paleolithic environmental archaeology,which aims at the study of the interaction between mankind and the environment,in North China has significantly developed in the past two to three decades,owing to the enormous accumulation of archaeological materials,big advances in scientific technology and rapid improvement of study methods.The aim of environmental archaeology is to understand how the mankind adapted to the environment,or how the mankind used natural resources to responde to environment changes.This paper reviewed the studies about the human history of the utilization of geological resources,raw material resources,plant and animal resources,and discussed the response of human being to environment changes through migratian and technology development.The further development of paleolithic environmental archaeology requius close collaboration between archaeologists,geologists and geographers.