编者按:本文系作者1982年10月赴北非、西欧讲学的报告稿之一(一)是否使用骨器?关于北京人使用骨器的问题,是法国考古学家步日耶教授(Prof.H.Breuil)首次提出的。1931年冬季,他在北京举行的中国地质学会会议上,作了有关周口店的石器和用火遗迹以及骨器发现意义的报告①。后来他再次来中国时.又把所发现碎骨和碎角作了一个研究,发表了一本专著②。1933年在步达生和德日进等合著的《中国原人史要》一书中,也把周口店的骨器作了扼要的阐述③。 Editor’s Note: This article is one of the authors’ lectures to North Africa and Western Europe in October 1982 (a) Are bone tools used? The question of the use of bone tools by Pekingese was taught by French archaeologist Prof. Stephanie .Breuil) first proposed. In the winter of 1931, at a meeting of the China Geological Society held in Beijing, he made a report on the significance of the discovery of the stone and fire sites and the skeleton of Zhoukoudian. Later, when he came to China again, he made a study again about the bone fragments and broken corners he discovered and published a monograph. In 1933, the book “History of Chinese Gentry” co-authored by Stepasheng and Germany and Japan made a brief account of the bone of Zhoukoudian.