Systemic Research Of The Xiaochangliang Culture In Nihewan

Since the discovery of the Xiaochangliang site in 1978, many Early Paleolithic sites were found which made the research have a strong foundation in Nihewan Basin. However with the continual emergence of the new materials and the new archaeological methods, there are still many problems in existing research, such as lack of an explicit concept of archaeological culture, to investigate hominid behavior is still at the initial stage, and it will affect the further Nihewan Paleolithic study.Based on field work and previous studies, and application of the new method of archaeologists, this paper to define Xiaochangliang Culture as the main options to explore and analyze the Nihewan Basin early Pleistocene hominid behavior, living environment and influence. The Xiaochangliang Culture appeared in 1.0Ma-1.8Ma years ago in North China Plain East Asia ,took the poor quality of flint as the main raw material, mainly ercussion with a hammer and Flock-on block technique, lay the sharp edge of the thin margin of stone tablets often used directly; the stone processing is simple, most of them were toward the dorsal surface, objects were small and rough; the basic living unit was a small-scale group, to the corpse Scavenging (hunting), when the human intelligence operations should be equivalent to specific intelligence; they lived in temperate arid savanna, locally marshes or lakes environment; the representative sites in Nihewan Basin include Majuangou site, Xiaochangliang site, Banshan site, Donggutuo site, Cenjiawan site, Feiliang site ,Dachangliang site. This paper point out that Xiaochangliang Culture has become the representative of the culture of the Nihewan Basin and the shrine of China's Paleolithic archaeological research. Meanwhile make presume for the later discussing of the origin of Xiaochangliang Culture.Along with the development of science, to explore people's own origins, migration and other major Proposition are become increasingly urgent. Xiaochangliang Culture happens at the key nodes of these scientific problems. Its oldest age and richness culture are attractive to the Chinese and World's Paleolithic archaeologists focused them attention on this basin. I believe Xiaochanglinag Culture will shed more bright light.