周口店第四纪地质与环境变迁研究进展与展望

本文综述了周口店地区80多年来在第四纪地质、古人类、考古及环境研究方面的成果和重要进展,简要地展望了今后的工作。在过去的80多年中,在周口店发现了丰富的直立人、早期智人和晚期智人化石以及大量的旧石器;建立了较为完整的第四纪地层层序;发现了早更新世的古冰楔,并命名为太平山冰缘期;第1地点记录了中更新世三次明显的气候冷暖波动。今后应注意早更新世新地点寻找,人类的进化及"北京人"的社会行为研究,环境标志及环境事件的细致研究,生物-气候事件的对比研究,建立周口店的生物-气候事件地层序列。 

A REVIEW OF THE QUATERNARY GEOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN ZHOUKOUDIAN, BEIJING

This paper is a review of the Quaternary geology,environmental change,palaeoanthropology and archeology made during the last 80 years in Zhoukoudian area,Beijing,and gives superficial suggestions deeply to research on the Quaternary geology,environment and palaeoanthropology in this area.For the last 80 years,in Zhoukoudian area many fossils of Homo erectus pekinensis, early Homo sapiens and late Homo sapiens were found;a lot of old stone artifacts were collected;the Quaternary stratigraphical sequence was set up;the ice wedges of the Early pleistocene were discovered and the Taipingshan Cold Age was named;the three circles of the warm-cold fluctuations in the Middle Pleistocene were recognized.The last researches show that it is very important to search for the new Early Pleistocene fossil localities,to study on the evolution and social behavior of "Peking man",to research on the environmental change for the Quaternary period,and to yield a stratigraphic sequence of the biotic-climatic events in Zhoukoudian area in the future.