考古学次生堆积的研究与探索

一、问题的提出 随着当代考古学的目标从器物描述扩展到对人类行为的信息提炼，对考古遗址中文化堆积改造和遗址形成过程的了解，便成为田野工作的一项重要方面。虽然，对过去社会文化和人类活动的了解取决于考古学家对遗址的仔细发掘和采样，但是发掘和采样在多大程度上反映了历史的真实面貌，则是一个很大的未知数。因为，考古遗址从形成开始，不但受到人类活动的改造，而且在使用时和废弃后的漫长岁月里，还会被堆积后的自然和人类动力破坏得面目全非。所以，如果要科学地认识考古学文化，仔细分辨人类和自然对考古遗址的改造和扰动就必…

A Study of Archaeological Secondary Deposits

Formation process of archaeological records has become a principal approach in the exploration of human behavior and social change. The article discusses the significance of secondary deposit analysis at the Maliutuo site in the Three Gorge area and points out that with refined methodology,we are able to extract valuable information from secondary deposit which is commonly consider worthless previously.