海岱地区史前白陶初论

A Preliminary Discussion on the White Pottery of the Prehistoric Haidai Region

海岱地区是史前时期白陶的集中分布区,这类器物主要流行于距今5000～4000年,特色鲜明。白陶主要见于大、中型遗址,多出自大、中型墓葬,具有礼器的性质,白陶的有无和多少是社会分化的指标之一。白陶还伴随着对外的文化交流,传播和扩散到中原地区、长江下游地区和豫北冀中南地区,并被后来的夏商文化所继承。

Haidai Region is one of the two main distribution areas of white pottery in the Neolithic Age of China. In this region, white pottery was mainly popular in 5000-4000 BP; the white pottery wares in this region had distinctive features： they were made of Kaolin clay and baked in high temperature, their types were reducing gradually during this time, and their most significant type is Gui-pitcher in unique shapes. The white pottery wares were recovered mostly in large- and middle-sized sites, and moreover, from large- and middle-sized burials, showing that they had natures of ritual vessels, the existence and absence and the amounts of which in a tomb or site were indicators of social differentiation. Meanwhile, white pottery was diffused and spread into the Central Plains, the middle and lower reaches of Yangtze River and the region in present-day northern Henan and middle and southern Hebei Provinces and other areas along with the external communication of Dawenkou and Longshan Cultures, and finally inherited by the Xia and Shang Cultures in later times.