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“The Panxian Dadong Collaborative Project investigates the archaeological evidence for the origins of complex behaviors preceding the evolution of fully modern humans in Asia. Since 1994, our excavations at the large limestone cave of Panxian Dadong in Guizhou province, South China, have yielded the remains of fossil mammals (including ancient humans), burnt and cut bone, stone tools, charcoal and ash. In addition, we recover materials that can be dated by geochemical techniques and sediments that can be analyzed for paleoenvironmental information.”
“The preservation of all these elements in the deposits (quite rare in southern Chinese archaeological sites) suggests that Panxian Dadong Cave was a habitation site occupied over a long time span (300,000 years ago to 60,000 years ago). Because of the richness and temporal depth of this well-dated archaeological and fossil record, we can address a wide variety of questions concerning the behavioral flexibility of early humans in this challenging mountainous environment.”
“Since 1994, we have raised over $200,000 for this project including support from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Louis Leakey Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and a three-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, US-China cooperative research program. Most recently we were awarded a National Geographic Society grant for $24,500 to continue our excavations in 2005.”
“We are a truly collaborative multidisciplinary project that strives to integrate the U.S. and Chinese approaches to science and prehistory. We present and publish our research collaboratively and our project publications so far number fourteen papers in English and several more in Chinese.”
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Huang, Weiwen, Si Xinqiang, Hou Yamei, Sari Miller-Antonio, and L. A. Schepartz. “Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China.” Current Anthropology 36, no. 5 (1995): 844-846.
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Schepartz., L. A., and Sari Miller-Antonio. “Middle Pleistocene Human Adaptations to the Southern Chinese Landscape. (Abstracts of the Paleoanthropology Society Meetings.)” Journal of Human Evolution 32, no. 4 (1997): A18-19.
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Miller-Antonio, S., L. A. Schepartz, and D. Bakken. “Raw Material Selection and Evidence for Rhinoceros Tooth Tools at Dadong Cave, Southern China.” Antiquity 74, no. 284 (2000): 372-379.
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Schepartz, L. A., S. Miller-Antonio, and D. A. Bakken. “Upland Resources and the Early Palaeolithic Occupation of Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma.” World Archaeology 32, no. 1 (2000): 1-13.
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Schepartz, Lynne A., Sari Miller-Antonio, and Deborah A. Bakken. “Early Palaeolithic Occupation of Southwestern China and Adjacent Areas of Vietnam and Thailand.” Acta Anthropologica Sinica. Supplement to Vol. 19, Proceedings of 19 99 Beijing International Symposium on Paleoanthropology (2000): 122-127.
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Miller-Antonio, Sari, Lynne A. Schepartz, and Deborah Bakken. “New Directions in Paleolithic Archaeology: Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective.” Current Anthropology 42, no. 5 (2001): 747-749.
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Rink, W. Jack, Lynne A. Schepartz, Sari Miller-Antonio, Weiwen Huang, Yamei Hou, Deborah Bakken, Daniel Richter, and Heather L. Jones. “Electron Spin Resonance (ESR) Dating of Mammalian Tooth Enamel at Panxian Dadong Cave, Guizhou, China.” In Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology, edited by Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates, 111-118. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2003.
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Schepartz, Lynne A., Deborah A. Bakken, Sari Miller-Antonio, Christine K. Paraso, and Panagiotis Karkanas. “Faunal Approaches to Site Formation Processes at Panxian Dadong.” In Current Research in Chinese Pleistocene Archaeology, edited by Chen Shen and Susan G. Keates, 99-110. Oxford, England: Archaeopress, Publishers of British Archaeological Reports, 2003.
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Bekken, Deborah, Lynne A. Schepartz, Sari Miller-Antonio, Hou Yamei, and Huang Weiwen. “Taxonomic Abundance at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene Cave in South China.” Asian Perspectives 43, no. 2 (2004): 333 -359.
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Jones, H. L., W. J. Rink, L. A. Schepartz, S. Miller-Antonio, Huang Weiwen, Hou Yamei, Wang Wei. “Coupled Electron Spin Resonance (ESR)/Uranium-series Dating of Mammalian Tooth Enamel at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, China.” Journal of Archaeological Science 31 (2004): 965-977.
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Miller-Antonio, Sari, Lynne A. Schepartz, Panagiotis Karkanas, Hou Yamei, Huang Weiwen, and Deborah Bekken. “Lithic Raw Material Use at the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Panxian Dadong.” Asian Perspectives 43, no. 2 (2004): 314-332.
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Miller-Antonio, Sari, and Lynne A. Schepartz. “A Conversation with Huang Weiwen: Reflections on Asian Paleolithic Research.” Asian Perspectives 43, no. 2 (2004): 197–204.
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Schepartz, Lynne A., and Sari Miller-Antonio. “Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective.” Asian Perspectives 43, no. 2 (2004): 187-190.
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Wang, Wei, Liu Jun, Hou Yamei, Si Xinqiang, Huang Weiwen, Lynne A. Schepartz, and Sari Miller-Antonio. “Panxian Dadong, South China: Establishing a Record of Middle Pleistocene Climatic Changes.” Asian Perspectives 43, no. 2 (2004): 302-313. |
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