从环境史视角看石家河古城崛起的背景

Analysis on the Rise Background of the Ancient Shijiahe City from an Environmental History Viewpoint

长江中游文明起源走在时代的前列,三苗族群在稻作农业的基础上,创造了一支颇具南方特色的文明,建立了三苗酋邦,中心位于天门石家河古城。石家河古城之所以崛起于今天门一带,我们认为这是三苗族群不断适应环境选择环境的结果。究其原因,既有如气候、洪水、土壤、生态等自然环境方面的原因,也有稻作农业中心的转移、社会和文化交流格局的变迁等方面的人文环境原因。各种原因交织在一起,互相制约,都起了一定的作用,但稻作农业中心的北移是诸多原因中最根本的原因。

The origin time of the middle Yangtze River civilization is earlier than many others,since the Three Miao people created a special southern civilization on the basis of rice agriculture,and established their chiefdom,the center of which is located in the Ancient Shijiahe City of present Tianmen.This paper points out that why this place is selected as the center is because of its benign environment.Environmental factors include not only natural ones,such as climate,flood,soil,and ecological conditions,but al...