The Chronological Stage Study Of Tools In Jiahu Site

Jiahu site is one of the most important sites at early Neolithic Age in China,and divided into 3 phases which dated from about 7500-9000 years ago. According to the stone and bone tools that excavated from units which has obvious syntagmatic relations of utensils and changing tendency of stratum relations. Characteristic of shape, changing tendency of shape, assemblage of tools are discussed in order to research on the chage and development of tools in Jiahu site.This thesis analyzes the assemblage, number and changes of stone, bone and pottery tools from the first phase to the third one, combining the remains of animals and plants, discusses the economic structure and its changing tendency in three phases. Utensils which excavated in 2001 spring were arranged preliminarily, combining the previous datas, according to the categories and number of tools that excavated in graves and habitation respectively from different zones for zonal study, it is argued that the differences concerning categories, number of tools in different zones might be caused by different job division.The thesis analyzed hunting, fishing, chopping tools and agricultural tools from the first phase to the third one, concerning its changing of categories, number, function and other aspects, connecting with environment, climate, animals and plants resources at that time, discusses the man-land relationship which were reflected by tools change.