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JOURNAL OF GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCES
Volume 29, Issue 3, Pages 406-416Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11442-019-1606-1
Keywords
Luonan Basin; loess; Paleolithic artifact; Middle Pleistocene; Cosmogenic nuclides
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41572155, 41690111]
- Global Change Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China [2016YFA0600503]
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The Luonan Basin is a key region of early human settlement in Central China with more than 300 discovered Paleolithic sites. Artifact layer 1 of the Liuwan site was dated to approximately 0.6 million years (Ma) based on correlation with the well-dated loess-paleosol sequence of the central Chinese Loess Plateau. This study reassessed the age of the Liuwan artifact layer via an absolute dating method, namely, Al-26/Be-10 burial dating. We determined the burial age of artifact layer 1, which was most likely at least 0.60 +/- 0.12 Ma (1o), using three simple burial ages. The new burial age confirmed the previous estimated age and provided a considerably accurate age range. Therefore, we suggest the use of the Al-26/Be-10 burial dating method in thin loess-covered Paleolithic sites around the Qinling Mountain Range is helpful to understand the early human behavior.
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