浅析新石器时代生产工具中的“仪式用斧”问题——兼论生产工具功能的分化

Analysis on the Ceremonial Axe of Production Tools at Neolithic Age:on the Function Differentiation of the Production Tools

石铲和石钺在我国新石器时代之初是较为普遍的生产工具,后来随着社会经济的发展和原始宗教力量的增强,部分石铲和石钺逐渐从生产工具中分化出来,制作日益精美,有的器表还刻有纹饰,成为祭祀或是宗教活动中的仪式用品。本文以石铲和石钺为例对新石器时代生产工具中的"仪式用斧"现象略作探讨。

Stone shovels and stone tomahawks are ordinary production tools at the early stage of Neolithic Age. Along with development of social economy and expanding of original religious force, a part of stone shovels and stone tomahawks, which are made more and more exquisitely, even some of them are carved decorative pictures, gradually differ from tools and become sacrifice or religious articles. This article takes stone shovels and stone tomahawks for example in order to discuss the phenomenon of Ceremonial Axe at Neolithic Age.