我国史前有槽箭杆整直器

Grooved Straighteners of Arrow-shafts in Prehistoric China

我国史前文化中出有一种扁长方体、一面有剖面为U形的凹槽石器,国内学者对其功能尚无深入讨论。类似的器物在北美、欧亚大陆及其附属岛屿和非洲的史前文化中都有发现,北美学者依据民族学调查和实验考古研究,将其定名为"箭杆整直器",即加热后磨擦使箭杆端直。据此推断,我国所出此类器物至少有一部分也是箭杆整直器。

In prebistorie China there prevailed a sort of grooved stone tool with the appearance looking like a flat rectangle and with a groove U-shaped in section on a face. No deep-going discussion has been made among Chinese scholars. Similar objects were discovered in prehistoric cultures of North America, Africa and all Eurasia along with its subsidiary islands. In the light of the results of ethno- graphical surveys among the Indians and experimental archaeological researches, North American schol- ars took the lead in naming them ＂arrow-shaft straighteners, ＂ which has been widely accepted. It suggests that this type of object unearthed in China can be inferred at least partly to be arrow-shaft straighteners.