旧石器时代中期是旧石器时代早期到晚期的过渡时期,无论在人的体质演化、文化发展和自然界变迁,主要是哺乳动物的进化上,都起着承上启下、继往开来的作用,对了解旧石器文化的继承性和发展性有着重要意义。基于我国南方旧石器中期文化遗物发现甚少的客观情况,本文只着重探讨我国北方①旧石器时代中期文化的若干问题。在时代上,它介于旧石器时代早期和晚期之间,其哺乳动物群中常常反映出保留少许残余种,大量出现现生种,因之,断代颇难,常有异见。现就大多数学者的观点,从地层上看,旧石器时代中期应包括黄土底砾层和顶部红色土下的部分河湖相堆 Paleolithic mid-Paleolithic period is an early to late transitional period, both in the physical evolution, cultural development and changes in nature, mainly in the evolution of mammals, all play the role of up and down, the future, to understand the Paleolithic culture Inheritance and development of great significance. Based on the objective fact that the Middle Paleolithic cultural relics in the south of China were rarely found, this article focuses only on some problems in the mid-Paleolithic culture in the north ① in China. In the age, it is between the early Paleolithic and late Palaeolithic. Its mammalian herd often reflects the presence of a small amount of residual species and the presence of large numbers of present-day species. Therefore, it is quite difficult to disrupt and disagree often. For most scholars, from the stratigraphic point of view, the mid-Paleolithic period should include loess gravel and some rivers and lakes in the top red soil