摘要
《中国北方地区新石器时代文化研究》的作者韩建业从大学时代起就全身心地钻研我国考古学。攻读硕士和博士学位期间,大量阅读国内外考古学研究成果和理论探索的文献,得以开阔视野并打下功底。多年的勤奋耕耘结出了丰硕的果实,先后有《王湾三期文化研究》(《考古学报》1997年第1期)、《殷墟墓地分区研究》(《考古》1997年第1期),《试论豫东南地区龙山时代的考古学文化》,《考古学研究》(三)
This review attempts to appreciate new achievements and new insights of the book Study of Neolithic Cultures of the Northern Zone of China.This book is among the first ones that touch upon the rich potentials of the Northern Zone.The Northern Model that it proposes confirms the multilinear variant of social evolution.Applying the 'quxi leixing (regional diachronic typolo- gy)' approach,it for the first time establishes a systematic chronological charter for this area. On this ground,it continues to describe a high-resolution and dynamic picture of interaction be- tween the Central Zone (Zhongyuan) and the Northern Zone.It pays special attention to social differentiation at both the intra-settlement and inter-settlement scales,and recovers the role of settlements as active bodies of political,economical,and cultural activities.Furthermore,the discussion of human-environment dynamics provides a new perspective to view ancient popula- tion migrations.In the meantime,this book brings up several new issues.The Northern Model opens a new question that a comparative study of Central Zone and Northern Zone in social evo- lution,economical forms,and environments may diagnose new environmental and social factors that mold social complexity.The Yangshao culture,a major subject of this book,may need breaking up,which raises the issue of the criteria of defining archaeological culture.The inter- pretation of cultural dispersal seems to be simplistic,which reveals that we are far from a suffi- cient understanding of cultural behaviors of human.The chapter of human-environment interac- tion lacks a solid database,which calls for much more effort in the study of paleoclimate.All these issues are what we shall direct energy to in the future.Overall,this book is one of those that represent the cutting edge,and herald the future of the field.
出处
《边疆考古研究》
2005年第1期339-347,共9页
Research of China＇s Frontier Archaeology
