岭南地区史前时期的酿酒与农业起源

WINE BREWING AND AGRICULTURE ORIGIN IN THE PREHISTORIC LINGNAN REGION

岭南地区新石器早中期以水稻为代表的农业起源现象,与酿酒有一定关系。甑皮岩遗址、顶蛳山遗址和石峡文化代表了岭南新石器时代早中晚三个阶段,这些遗址都存在各类陶质酒器,并且呈现出逐渐复杂化的趋势。陶质酒器三个阶段的发展也变相反映了原始农业的阶段性发展。酿酒的需要推动了对野生稻的强化利用,开启了新石器时代末期大石铲文化稻作农业经济的先声。

Rice symbolized the phenomenon of agriculture origin in the Lingnan Region at the early-middle period of the Neolithic Age,and it also associated with wine brewing.ZengpiyanSite,DingsishanSite,and Shixia Culturerespectively represent the early,middle,and late periods of the Neolithic Age inthe Lingnan area.These heritage sites existedall kinds of ceramic wine vessels,and these vessels also indicated the process of gradual complexity.The development of ceramic wine ves⁃sels in above-mention three periods also indirectly demonstrated the state development of primitive agriculture.The need for wine brewing pushed forward the intensive exploitation of wild rice,start⁃ing the prelude of the Dashichan rice agriculture economy in the late Neolithic Age.