查海遗址家户分析

Analysis of Households at the Chahai Site

家户是聚落社会中最基本的单位,也是分析聚落经济和文化最重要的方法。通过对查海遗址家户间房屋面积和遗物数量的量化分析,推测查海聚落已经透露出一定程度的经济分化迹象,而产生这种分化最直接的动因便是石器制作的半专业化发展。但是,这种经济分化并没有使手工业者在查海聚落中取得相应的社会地位,而是相对平等的与其他家户聚居于此。

Household is the most basic unit in a community and because of this,household archaeology is the most important method to understand economic structure and culture of a prehistoric settlement.Through a quantitative analysis of the size of the houses and the abundance of artefacts found in these houses at the Chahai site,this article suggests that there was,to a certain extent,sign of economic division which stemmed from the development of semi-specialized production of stone artefacts at the site.However,such an economic division did not result in the craftsmen of the stone artefacts gaining a social status that might be equivalent to their role in economic production.Rather,they inhabited the settlement alongside other households in a relatively egalitarian organisation.