东南亚大陆的“刻/印纹陶”——追寻新石器化之路

The Incised and Impressed Wares of Mainland Southeast Asia: Searching for the Road of Dispersal of Neolithic Culture

1987年,笔者在参加泰国华富里府的一处新石器时代遗址的发掘中,对出土陶器上采用刻划、压印或戳印等方式制作出的“几何”“曲线”和“S”形等纹饰产生了极大兴趣。装饰类似纹饰的陶片广泛分布于东南亚大陆史前遗址中,笔者将其统称为“刻/印纹陶”。为寻找该纹饰的来源,并探究与之相关的新石器“文化包裹”的起源及传播问题,笔者对中国长江中下游地区、中国南方河湖流域及东南亚大陆河谷地带三个主要区域出土的材料进行了梳理和对比。由于材料的局限“刻/印纹陶”起源问题仍未解决,新石器“文化包裹”的传播过程大致明了,重点探讨了该“包裹”中的贝(cardial)刻/印纹和线/篦纹。

In 1987,when participating in the excavation of a Neolithic site in Lopburi Province,Thailand,the author became deeply interested in the comma,curved,and s-shaped decoration patterns incised,impressed,and stamped onto the local pottery.Ceramics decorated in this manner are widely distributed at prehistoric sites throughout mainland Southeast Asia and the author refers to them as“incised and impressed wares”.To find the origin of this decoration pattern and gain a deeper understanding of the origin and dissemination of the“Neolithic package”,the author collected and compared materials excavated from sites in the lower and middle Yangzi River Valley,the Hehu River Valley in southern China,and the main river valleys of mainland Southeast Asia.Due to the limitations of available materials,the question of the origin of the incised and impressed wares could not be solved,but the dissemination patterns of the Neolithic“cultural package”are relatively clear and this package contains incised cardial and line/net patterns as one of its major components.