在在 Xuchang 附近的 Lingjing 地点的 20072008 挖掘期间,河南省省,以前始于约 10080 ka,哺乳动物的石块遗体的大数量在 situ 与早现代的人(EMH ) 颅骨碎片的显著的簇一起被恢复。显著地,一些那些动物骨头可能被修改进工具。使用穿分析被执行检验修改骨头工具的功能。结果建议工具被用于钻的那根 Lingjing 骨头,渗透,并且丢弃动物物质,和那一些可能在使用期间是 hafted。这研究在北中国在早迟了的更新世的人的职业证实有意修改的骨头工具的那早存在。这发现建议做并且骨头工具的使用是不可避免地早人的行为和文化开发的部分,这石头工具。
During 2007-2008 excavations at the Lingjing site near Xuchang, Henan Province, dated back to around 100-80 ka ago, a large quantity of mammalian fossil remains were recovered along with a remarkable cluster of Early Modern Human (EMH) skull fragments in situ. Observably some of those animal bones were probably modified into tools. A use-wear analysis was carried out to examine the functions of modified bone tools. The results suggest that Lingjing bone tools were used for drilling, penetrating, and scraping animal substances, and that some might have been hafted during the use. This study confirms that early existence of intentionally-modified bone tools at human occupations of the early Late Pleistocene in northern China. This discovery suggests making and use of bone tools were inevitably a part of early human behaviors and cultural development, as such of stone tools.