广东江门新会区象边山遗址考古发掘简报

Brief Report on Excavation of Xiangbianshan Site in Xinhui District,Jiangmen,Guangdong Province

2009年对新会区象边山遗址进行了考古发掘,发现了三组无承继关系的古文化遗存,分别是古椰文化、商文化和西周晚至春秋时期遗存。在这三组遗存之中,属于古椰文化的第一组遗存引人注目,以西樵山层凝灰岩为原料的双肩石器和细绳纹、水波纹陶器为其特色。类似遗物在东至中国香港西贡沙下,西至珠海草堂湾、台山新村等遗址均有发现,而位于西江边的新会象边山遗址的发现,让我们更清晰地看到了古椰文化及西樵山双肩石器往南传播的途径与路线,其中西江水道起到了非常重要的作用。这为我们认识环珠江口地区史前文化的发展与传播提供了一个新的视角。

In 2009,excavations were carried out at Xiangbianshan Site in Xinhui District,revealing three non-successive groups of ancient cultural remains,respectively of ancient coconut culture,Shang culture and Western Zhou and Spring&Autumn Period culture.Among the three groups of remains,the first group,which is of ancient coconut culture,stands out,and is characterised by double-shouldered stone implements made of tuffite quarried from Xiqiao Mountain as well as earthenware with cord patterns and wave designs.Similar relics have been found at places as far east as in Shaxia(in Sai Kung,Hong Kong)and as far west as in Caotangwan(in Zhuhai)and Xincun(in Taishan).The discovery of Xiangbianshan Site,which is by the Xijiang River in Xinhui District,results in a clearer picture of the ancient coconut culture as well as the means and routes of the southward spread of the double-shouldered stone implements of Xiqiao Mountain,in which the Xijiang River played a very important role.This could be a new perspective to look at the development and dissemination of prehistoric cultures in the Circum-Pearl River Delta area.