商周时期南北方铜矿开采技术比较研究--以鄂赣交界地带和辽西地区为例

Mining Techniques of Copper Ores in South and North China during the Shang-Zhou Period: Comparison between Hubei-Jiangxi Border and Liaoxi

本文选取了鄂赣交界地带和辽西地区的4座晚商至西周早中期的古铜矿遗址,分别从探矿技术、开采技术、开采工具、相关配套设施和选矿技术等方面对南北两区域古铜矿的开采技术进行全面比较,并试图从两地的自然环境、矿物品质以及生产组织方式等不同方面来解释出现这种差异的原因。

The present paper focuses on four copper mine sites discovered in the Hubei-Jiangxi border and Liaoxi(the western part of Liaoning Province), which were mined during the Late Shang to the Early-Middle Western Zhou. It attempts to compare the mining techniques of copper ores used in South and North China at the time, in terms of mine detection, ore mining, mining tools, auxiliary?tools, and selection of raw ores. Given the differences in mining techniques noticed in the two studied regions, the paper tries to explore the causes for such differences in aspects of natural environmental settings, quality of raw ores, and production organization.