岭南地区新石器时代特殊性的思考

Reflections on the Particularity of Neolithic Age in Lingnan Area

岭南地区新石器时代开始于距今12000年的全新世早期,判断标准为"食物生产"的出现,陶容器是其显著标志。这个时期的文化性质,用"新旧石器时代过渡"或者"中石器时代"来概括都是不合适的。世界上大多数地区新石器时代的开始都是面对资源环境剧变采取"最佳觅食模式"进行"食物生产"的结果,并不都采取"农业"方式。传统上的"农业起源"概念只是世界上主要农业起源中心新石器时代开始的标志,而不能套用在其他地区。

The Neolithic Age in Lingnan area began in the early Holocene,about 12,000 years ago,when the"food production"occurred,with pottery containers as its significant symbol.The cultural nature of this period cannot be summed up as"a transition between the Palaeolithic Age and the Neolithic Age"or"the Mesolithic Age".The beginning of Neolithic Age in most parts of the world was the result of"food production"in the face of resource and environmental upheaval by adopting"optimal foraging mode",not"agriculture".The traditional"origin of agriculture"is only a mark of the beginning of the Neolithic Age in one of the world's major agricultural centers of origin,and it cannot be applied to other regions.