Late Paleolithic Site at Damajiu Rock Shelter

　　The Late Paleolithic Site at Damajiu Rock Shelter is situated on a rock shelter terrace on the mountainside of the Huoxing Mountain Valley, west of the Yao Guan Basin. The rock shelter faces south and has an overhang covering approximately 70 square meters of ground surface. During three surveys conducted in February, March, and August 1987, more than 20 stone artifacts and several pieces of animal bone were collected from the area beneath and on the gentle slopes around the rock shelter, covering about 1,000 square meters. The stone tools mainly include unifacial cobble hammerstones, scrapers, choppers, as well as points, anvil-stone/hammerstone combinations, and cores. The types of tools, manufacturing techniques, and degree of fossilization of the bone fragments are similar to those found at Tangzigou and Wanrengang sites, and their ages are also roughly comparable.