关于珠海市棠下环遗址出土石范若干问题的探讨

Some Problems of a Stone Mold from the Tangxiahuan Site in Zhuhai City

广东地区史前文化遗址出土石范具有十分重要的意义,是当地古代居民掌握青铜铸造技术的实证,因此,石范的年代关系到当地社会历史发展进程中青铜时代起始时间的确定。按照目前一些学者对相关遗址时代的推定,石范的年代可早到商代,从而肯定了广东地区进入青铜时代的时间。但笔者认为有关遗址年代的推定是值得商榷的,以下就相关问题发表一些个人的见解,如有不当,欢迎指正。

According to some scholars' dating of the remains of the meander pattern pottery culture in the Guangdong region, the stone molds from sites of the culture can be assigned as early as the Shang period. In this paper, the author studies the relationship between the meander pattern pottery culture and the cultures of hydra design pottery type, as well as related chronological problems. On this basis he points out that the stone molds from the Tangxiahuan site in Zhuhai City should not be dated to the middle and late Shang. The Bronze Age culture in the Guangdong region must have been represented by the cultures of hydra design pottery type. Its main body was the culture with stamped geometrical pattern pottery, which was brought into the area south of the Five Ridges by the Yue people migrating from the region north of the Five Ridges in the Spring-and-Autumn and Warring States period.