Раннепалеолитическая индустрия анкхе во Вьетнаме и проблема первоначального заселения Юго-Восточной Азии
Early Palaeolithic Industry of Ankhe, Vietnam, and the Problem of Initial Peopling of South-East Asia

Summary/Abstract: The origin of Ankhe industry is connected with the convergent evolution of Homo erectus populations which moved from Africa within the first migration wave of pebble-flake industries around 1,800 000—1,600 000 BP. It is not connected with the Acheulian complexes of the second wave of migration to Eurasia. Ankhe industry is documented by materials from more than 30 locations on the left bank and 2 locations on the right bank of Ba River. Representative material (about 2500 items) was discovered in stratified situation in a number of digs. This gave the base for typological and technological analysis of cores and tools. As a result, a number of simple core forms (of parallel and radial modifications), and tools (peaks, bifacial hand-axes, choppers and choppings, high scrapers) were recognized as typical for the Early Palaeolithic complexes. Bifacial Ankhe industry appeared about 800 000 BP on the local pebble-flake technological base. Similar complexes with bifacial artifacts of approximately the same age are known in Indonesia (Pajitanian complexes) and in China (Baise basin).

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