Fagang Wang’s research while affiliated with Shijiazhuang Railway Institute and other places

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Location of the Nihewan Basin in China (A). The topography of the study area together with the location of the sampling site (B) and the field photograph of sampling site (C). (Altitudes are in m a.s.l.).
Magnetostratigraphy and lithology of the Banshan site in Nihewan Basin (modified from Zhu et al., 2004).
Pollen percentage and concentration diagram for the Banshan site. Only selected taxa are shown. CONISS results are shown on the far right.
PCA results for the pollen spectra from the Banshan site. (A): variable loadings on axes 1 and 2, and (B) sample loadings on axes 1 and 2.
Lithology, median grain-size profile, and grain-size zones for the Banshan site. Representative grain-size frequency distribution and cumulative curves are shown on the right.

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Environment of the Early Pleistocene Banshan Paleolithic Site in the Nihewan Basin, North China
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February 2022

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Shuoqiang Da

The Banshan archaeological site is one of the most important Early Pleistocene Paleolithic sites in the Nihewan Basin in North China. Based on analyses of pollen, grain size and charcoal of 56 samples from a sedimentary profile, we reconstructed the environment of the Banshan site before and after the interval of hominin activity (1.340–1.290 Ma). The results show that before the appearance of hominin activity (1.340–1.324 Ma), the climate of the region was initially cold and wet and then cold and dry. The regional vegetation was mainly Pinus and Picea forest in the earlier stage, and steppe dominated by arid-tolerant plants such as Artemisia and Chenopodiaceae in the later stage. During the period of hominin activity (1.324–1.318 Ma), the climate was warm and wet, the vegetation was mainly Pinus forest, and the site was a lakeside environment which would have provided resources such as food and water for hominins. During 1.318–1.310 Ma, the climate was warm and wet, the lake continued to expand and the lake level rose, which may have forced the hominins to migrate outside the area. During 1.310–1.290 Ma, the climate changed from warm and humid to cold and arid, accompanied by the change of the regional vegetation from forest to forest-grassland. Hominin activity at the Banshan site occurred during the interval of climate change from cold and dry to warm and wet, and it ended with the rise of the ancient lake level at Nihewan and the deterioration of the climate.

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... Evidence of more complex core technologies is confirmed earlier than 1 Ma in Western Europe. Moving towards the east in Asia, under similar or different climatic contexts, the main technological strategies at Lunery are ultimately not so different at ca. 1 Ma, with in general low productivity and adaptation to raw material constraints, with for instance bipolar debitage, various flaking methods and few retouched products [53][54][55][56] , except in rare cases 57 . ...

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Earliest evidence of human occupations and technological complexity above the 45th North parallel in Western Europe. The site of Lunery-Rosieres la-Terre-des-Sablons (France, 1.1 Ma)
Environment of the Early Pleistocene Banshan Paleolithic Site in the Nihewan Basin, North China