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SlNANTHROPUS FOR the first recognition of the fact that Sinanthropus had made and used implements of bone the archæological world is indebted to the Abbe Breuil. Before 1930, it was not known that the Choukoutien cave, in which the osteological remains of Peking man had been discovered, was an archæological site; but in that year Dr. Breuil recognized that the base of the antler from the cave, shown to him in Paris, had been burnt and fashioned into a tool by blows of a stone implement. Further discoveries of quartz flakes and burnt bones followed, and were in turn succeeded by the discovery of the rich cultural layer at the base of the Kotzetang in 1931. A visit to the site in that year by Dr. Breuil led to the identification of a large number of tools fashioned of bone or antler; and as these were not universally accepted without question, he was invited to make a further and more detailed study of them, of which the results are now made available. It is to be noted that material found later than 1934 is not included in the report.
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Bone and Stone Industries of Early Man in China. Nature 145, 904–905 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145904a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145904a0