The secondary deposits at Ku-hsiang-tung, Manchuria

Abstract

The Ku-hsiang-tung deposits, located in the outskirts of the city of Harbin, have been the scene of excavations by Dr. S. TOKUNAOA and N. NAORA since about 1933. They succeeded in unearthing a variety of coarse Paleolith-like chipped stone implements and polished bone implements besides a quantity of fossilized animal bones.Since then, A. S. LOUKASHKIN and V. V. PoNOSOV have broached the opinion that these deposits had been washed in from some different locality.In 1938, a research party, headed by Dr. R. ENDO of the Institute of Scientific Reserch of Manchoukuo, and a few others, was organized to carry on a further excavation of the deposits. According to their finds, grounded on various newly discovered facts, it has been proven definitely that the deposit is of a secondary nature. It was also found that the Ku-hsiang-tung deposits are of a different character than the Wen-chuan-he deposits that develop along the Wen-chuan-he river. Another important discovery was that it was from the Ku-hsiang-tung deposits, washed by rivers, that the deposits of the Wen-chuan-he had been formed.However the primary deposits from which the Ku-hsiang-tung deposits had originated has not, as yet, been discovered.