Pottery production at the Miaodigou site in central China: Archaeological and archaeometric evidence
Pottery production at the Miaodigou site in central China: Archaeological and archaeometric evidence
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103301
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发表时间：
2022-02-01
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1.6
通讯作者：
Lu, Qin-Qin
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作者：
Li, Tao;Li, Pengfei;Lu, Qin-Qin
中国中部的庙底沟文化对新石器时代晚期的中国产生了深远的影响，导致了一些人称之为“早期中国”的形成。其精美的彩陶与高度程式化的模式是特别有名的东亚考古学家。庙底沟文化的代表是位于今河南省三门峡市的庙底沟遗址第一期（公元前3800-3300年）的考古遗迹。虽然庙底沟遗址（以及文化）的陶器生产具有高度的专业化水平，但尚未得到系统的论证和讨论。本文研究的对象是庙底沟遗址新近出土的第一期实用陶器，其中大部分为素陶，也有彩绘。通过结合考古学和考古学证据，包括化学成分分析（hhXRF）和矿物鉴定（XRD），我们首次讨论了庙底沟文化中心的陶器生产。我们揭示了庙底沟实用陶器的整体组成均匀性，主要存在于不同的糊状物，颜色，容器形式，形式推导的功能，阶段和空间单位。我们的研究结果证明了庙底沟遗址陶器生产的高强度和技术连续性，证实了该遗址在庙底沟文化时期的大部分时间里都是区域生产中心。我们认为，陶器的集中生产已经发生在庙底沟遗址。
The Miaodigou culture in central China had far-reaching influence across much of the Late Neolithic China, leading to the formation of some would call 'Early China'. Its exquisitely painted pottery with highly stylized patterns is especially well-known to East Asian archaeologists. The Miaodigou culture is represented by archaeological remains of Phase I (3800-3300 BCE) of the Miaodigou site in present-day Sanmenxia City of Henan Province. While a high level of specialization in pottery production has long been assumed for the Miaodigou site (and the culture as well), it has not been systematically demonstrated and discussed. The present study focuses on the Phase I utilitarian pottery-most of which are plain but some are painted-recently unearthed from the Miaodigou site. By combining archaeological and archaeometric evidence, including chemical compositional analysis (hhXRF) and mineral identification (XRD), we, for the first time, discuss pottery production at the very center of the Miaodigou culture. We reveal an overall compositional uniformity in the Miaodigou utilitarian pottery that largely exists across different pastes, colors, vessel forms, form-deduced functions, stages, and spatial units. Our results attest to the high intensity and technological continuity of pottery production at the Miaodigou site, confirming that the site was a regional production center through much of the Miaodigou culture period. We suggest that the centralized production of pottery had taken place at the Miaodigou site.