摘要
本文首先介绍了汉水中游地区史前婴少儿瓮棺以腰坑形式与成人进行合葬的墓例情况,并对该地区史前腰坑材料进行了系统梳理,推断这些腰坑原本应是瓮棺的载体,并通过对我国史前瓮棺葬的具体特征的辨析对此作了进一步确认。然后,本文对汉水中游地区这类特殊合葬墓的形成作了初步解释;并从腰坑的形态与功能角度,对史前和夏商时期出土的腰坑材料进行了分析比较,论证了汉水中游地区史前腰坑葬俗的独特性,同时认为中原地区商周时期广泛流行的腰坑葬俗属于另一个系统,其源头应与汉水中游地区无关。
This paper introduces a special prehistoric burial tradition in middle Han River valley, which infants were buried in urn-jars placed in a yaoken pit under a adults tomb. The study analyzes systematically the materials of prehistoric burials with yaoken pit traditions in the region, and suggest that the yaoken pit must have dug for placements of infant urn-burial, an assumption that can be verified by specific characteristics ofyaoken pit tradition in other regions of prehistoric China. Based upon this analysis, this paper provides preliminarily explanations on formations of such custom and compares functions ofyaoken pits from prehistoric period to the Xia and Shang dynasties. It is argued that this custom in middle Han River region is unique, and that different tradition of Yaoken urn-burials widely spread in Central Plain during Shang and Zhou dynasties has no relationships with that in middle Han River region.
出处
《江汉考古》
CSSCI
北大核心
2010年第1期55-64,共10页
Jianghan Archaeology
关键词
汉水中游地区
腰坑
瓮棺
middle Han River region, yaoken burials, urn-burials.
