中国早期青铜器的起源与传播

中原地区虽然从新石器时代就零星地发现青铜器残片,但青铜文化真正兴起则到了公元前2千纪的前半叶,中国北方早期青铜文化发生的时代晚于中原地区。相比之下,新疆地区则在公元前3千纪末开始,就出现了发达青铜器群;甘青地区青铜器群出现的年代也早于中原地区和中国北方地区。新的发现与研究表明,中国早期青铜器有从西北向中原内地和中国北方地区传播的趋势。这些发现大大拓宽了中国早期青铜器起源与传播研究的视野。

On the Origination and Dissemination of the early Chinese Bronze Vessel

Although bronze pieces of the Neolithic Age have been found sporadically in the Central Plains,the real rise of bronze culture dated from the first half of 2nd millennium BC,and the early bronze culture of Northern China was later than that of the central plains.By comparison,developed bronze groups had existed in Xinjiang Region at the end of the 3rd millennium BC,and the appearance era of bronze groups in Gansu and Qinghai Regions is also earlier than that of Central Plains and the Northern China.The new findings show that the early bronzes had the tendence of spreading from the north-west to the Central Plains and the Northern China.These findings significantly broaden the research horizon of the early Chinese bronzes origin and dissemination.