成都金沙遗址磨石随葬习俗研究

On the burial custom of inhuming grinding stone at Jinsha

磨石随葬是金沙遗址常见的丧葬习俗,磨石可能是当时古蜀社会军人或暴力群体特殊的标识物,具有社会职业身份象征与标识的作用,它是古蜀社会阶层分化的产物。磨石随葬盛行于船棺葬中,该习俗不晚于西周早期出现,春秋晚期衰落,战国时期消失。船棺葬中磨石随葬习俗与金沙中心聚落兴盛与衰落的时代背景有着密切的关联,它的发生与消失可能与西周至春秋时期金沙古蜀社会两次重大转型有关。随着春秋晚期古蜀政权更迭和统治阶层的变化,渊薮于磨石随葬传统的古蜀新兴统治阶层随即抛弃旧传统,拥抱新世界。

Grinding stone artifacts make a common category of burial accompanying goods at Jinsha.Grinding stones may have been symbolic for the military or violent professions then,while marking hierarchic divisions.Grinding stone artifacts were prevalent in the ship coffin burials,the custom of which appeared no later than the early Western Zhou Dynasty,declined in the late Spring and Autumn period,and disappeared in the Warring States period.The emergence and disappearance of the grinding-stone burial custom should have been related to the major changes in the ancient Shu society from the Western Zhou to the Spring and Autumn period.With the changing regimes and ruling classes in the late Spring and Autumn,the new ruling class of Shu abandoned the old burial custom and embraced the new world.