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A response to Keates and Kuzmin

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2015

Feng Li ,
Steven L. Kuhn  and
Xing Gao
Feng Li
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing 100044, China (Email: lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn; gaoxing@ivpp.ac.cn)
Steven L. Kuhn
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Building 30, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0030, USA (Email: skuhn@email.arizona.edu)
Xing Gao
Affiliation:
Key Laboratory of Vertebrate Evolution and Human Origins of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 142 Xizhimenwai Street, Beijing 100044, China (Email: lifeng@ivpp.ac.cn; gaoxing@ivpp.ac.cn)
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Susan Keates and Yaroslav Kuzmin have contributed valuable comments on our assessment of the chronology and technological characteristics of Shuidonggou localities 1 and 2. These comments have demonstrated some discordance in our publications that should be corrected here. Their rationale for abandoning the conclusions altogether is, however, weak at best. Most importantly, there is no reason to return to the chronology for the Initial Upper Palaeolithic (hereafter termed IUP) assemblages at the Shuidonggou site complex (SDG) proposed by Madsen et al. (2001). Keates and Kuzmin's critique focuses on two separate issues: the first is our characterisation of the assemblages from the lower part of SDG 2, and the second is our handling of the dates. We will address these in order.

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Antiquity , Volume 89 , Issue 345 , June 2015 , pp. 721 - 723
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2015 

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