关于中原早期铜器生产的几个问题:从石峁发现谈起

On the Production of Early Copper and Bronze Artifacts in China: Centering the Shimao Discoveries

本文据公布的石峁出土铜刀和环首刀石范,通过比较,认为铜刀和石范环首刀具有本土传统,年代和中原商代器相若。结合陶寺文化和二里头文化资料,对中原冶铜术来源与传统、铸铜遗址认定和石范铸造问题进行了讨论。认为冶铜术西来说有很多无法解释的问题,指出还没有证据认定石峁具有铸铜工业,说其对中原早期铜器生产发生影响言之过早。

This article focuses on the metal knife and the casting moulds unearthed at Shimao. A comparative research reveals that they should be of the local tradition, the date of which should be of the same period with the Shang dynasty in the Central Plains. Comparisons are carried out with Taosi and Erlitou.The author finds it problematic that metallurgy in China was originally from the west. So far, there is no evidence that metallurgical activities were in existence at Shimao. And it is too early to argue that CentralPlains metallurgy was impacted by Shimao.