一幅绝妙的大自然杰作映入眼帘,画面上呈现了引人人胜的各种禽兽(图1)。艺术家用粗犷的手法生动地描绘了一万多年前晚更新世的自然景观。这就是闻名于世的汉柯克化石公园——兰柯拉勃里“沥青湖”遗址。1980年6月,中国科学院古人类学和古脊椎动物学代表团应邀访问美国期间,在主人的精心安排下,我们有幸访问了这一早有所闻,但又很不熟悉的史前“沥青湖”遗址。它的奇特景色给我们留下了深刻印象。(图1) A wonderful masterpiece of nature greeted the screen, showing a variety of attractive animals (Figure 1). The artist’s vivid portrayal of the late Pleistocene natural landscape more than 10,000 years ago, with a brutal approach. This is the famous Hankook fossil park - Lan Ke La Bo Li “asphalt lake” ruins. In June 1980, under the master’s careful arrangement, the delegation of ancient Chinese anthropology and pale vertebrate zoology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences was invited to visit the United States. We were fortunate to visit this prehistoric “asphalt lake”, which has long been heard but not yet familiar with it. Ruins. We were impressed by the peculiar scenery of it. (figure 1)