贵州盘县大洞遗址的旧石器发现于1990年,从发掘到各项国际合作研究已经进行了20余年。就目前开展的工作,确认文化层堆积厚度约为3m,出土了大量石制品、可鉴定动物化石43种、4枚古人类牙齿化石以及用火证据等人类活动遗迹。研究表明大洞遗址的时代为中更新世晚期,相当于旧石器初期的最后阶段,其时间跨度大约从距今30万年至距今13万年。大洞遗址的重要考古研究价值使其被评为1993年全国十大考古发现并在1996年列入全国重点文物保护 The Paleolithic site of the Dadong site in Panxian County, Guizhou Province was discovered in 1990 and more than 20 years have passed since its discovery and various international cooperation studies. On the current work, confirmed the accumulation of cultural layer thickness of about 3m, unearthed a large number of stone products, can be identified 43 kinds of animal fossils, 4 ancient human fossil teeth and fire evidence and other human activities relics. The study shows that the era of Dadong site is the late stage of Middle Pleistocene, which is equivalent to the final stage of early Paleolithic. Its time span is about 300,000 years from now to 130,000 years ago. Dadong site of the important archaeological research value so that it was named the 1993 National Top Ten archaeological finds and in 1996 included in the national key cultural relics protection