青海民和县寺沟峡岩画调查简报

2019年,丝绸之路南亚廊道调查队在青海省民和县寺沟峡内发现了4幅6组个体102个岩画,并对岩画进行了详细的调查、测绘和数字化扫描。从整个岩面的制作技法来看,有直接磨刻法和敲凿法。岩画主要以抽象图案为主,有少量人像、持物人物、鸟等具象形象。其形象与新石器晚期至青铜时代彩陶图案纹饰相似度较高,与中原地区岩画有着密切关系,为研究官亭盆地早期文化提供了新的突破口。

Investigation Report of the Sigouxia Rock Paintings in Minhe County,Qinghai Province

patterns,alongside with a small number of representational images such as human figures,birds,etc.This article provides a comprehensive introduction to the rock paintings of Sigouxia,clarifying their distribution and the cutting-into situations,and reaches the basic conclusion that they were created in the approximate time to the rock paintings of the Central Plains represented by Jucishan Rock Paintings.From the perspective of graphic patterns,they are similar to those on the painted pottery of Majiayao culture and Qijia culture in the Gansu-Qinghai area.There are 17 sets of overlapping and cutting-into situations in Sigouxia,indicating that the rock paintings were created in several periods instead of being created at the same time.Given the inherent controversies over the dating of rock paintings,it is inappropriate to define them within relatively small temporal and spatial scales.Therefore,we can only put its age in the middle and late Neolithic Age to the Bronze Age.The discovery of Sigouxia Rock Paintings has enriched the variety of prehistoric remains in the Guanting Basin as well as the types of rock paintings in Qinghai.Its connection with rock paintings in the Central Plains provides alternative evidence for the spread of early culture in Qinghai,and the similarities to patterns on the painted pottery also provides new ideas for the study of the latter.The early culture of the Guanting Basin represented by the Lajia Ruins played an important role in the origin of Chinese civilization,which has been constantly highlighted following the discovery of various types of remains in the area and the development of in-depth research.The discovery of Sigouxia Rock Paintings also offered a breakthrough and possible evidences of the series of changes that took place in the Guanting Basin in the middle and late stages of the Qijia culture,as well as how the legends such as Dayu taming floods were presented in this area.