李家崖文化年代再议

李家崖文化典型器类与晚商早期商式铜、陶器的共存关系表明,李家崖文化的年代上限应为殷墟一期,该文化早期与朱开沟文化晚期部分器物形制接近,也表明两种文化之间年代紧密衔接。李家崖文化晚期出现的弧裆鬲与仿铜风格的鬲、鼎分属先周文化和殷商文化因素,据此可推定李家崖文化的年代下限为西周早期,相关文献中关于"鬼方"等北方部族的描述也与上述认识契合。

Re-examining the Dates of the Lijiaya Culture

The typical pottery and bronze artifacts of the Lijiaya Culture coexist with those of the early stage of the Late Shang period, suggesting that the Lijiaya Culture should have begun no earlier than the Yinxu Phase I. Given that the early stage of the Lijiaya Culture and the Late Zhukaigou Culture share some vessel shapes and forms, it is possible that the former followed closely after the latter. The pottery li-tripod with curved crotch as well as the pottery li-tripod and ding-tripod imitating bronze ritual vessels, which are noticed for the Late Lijiaya Culture, are typical of the Proto-Zhou Culture and the Yinshang Culture, respectively. It is thus concluded that the Lijiaya Culture ended no later than the early stage of the Western Zhou. The above findings are compatible with the written records in historic documents about ethnic groups(such as Guifang) in northwestern China.