The Research Of The Neolithic Period Settlement Patterns And Social Structural On The Three Gorges Area

Three Gorges region is the birthplace of one. Dating back about 200 million years ago lived in Wushan Ape Man, located on Wushan County of Chongqing Three Gorges region, in addition to the Three Gorges region from about ten thousand years ago, dating back to 4,000 years ago Stone Age culture of human life are sites, particularly in the Neolithic site of human habitation, the largest number of remains, the most abundant. Therefore, the Three Gorges area during the Neolithic culture, human development and change of settlement pattern and social structure of becomes very important.Three Neolithic settlements range from point of view, the city's settlement period of the back river culture, mainly in the west of the Piedmont Area of the Three Gorges region and the valley areas, the dense distribution of settlement sites are concentrated in the Zhicheng, Yidu area because in the area, after a long period of development, evolution, gradually formed a village mass organizations, but the main settlement period was scattered point distribution, from a large range of view it seems like there are mass organizations of the distribution pattern of early settlement , in fact, the development of settlement at this time is not sufficient. Daxi culture period settlements mainly in the west of the Three Gorges region and the east piedmont plains, dense settlement distribution sites are concentrated in the Zhijiang off the east side of Temple Mountain as the central plains. At this time of the settlement development is the gradual refinement stage, the major functional areas within settlements, such as home address district, burial, religious worship area and a workshop area of early hand are more clearly so the layout and planning. Qujialing culture period settlement is more fully developed, even more massive scale, distributed more widely, settlement sites throughout the Three Gorges area, especially in the gorge of the Yangtze River in eastern plains, such as the formation of a settlement Jianghan intensive areas. Shijiahe Culture settlements during the Neolithic settlement developed into the Three Gorges region at its peak, although the period of the Three Gorges area is not very large-scale settlement sites, but from a large number of archaeological excavation reports, located in the eastern part of the Three Gorges region, particularly and the lakes basin is Jianghan large settlement sites there group, but there is also an early urban civilization in the Yangtze River sprouting, such as Shijiahe city and so on.From the social structure, the Three Gorges Neolithic culture of this settlement show that the gradual expansion of distribution area, the Three Gorges region in the period of the population on the rise, gradually expand the scale settlements, settlement distribution space in the geographical area is also progressively expanded. Dasi culture from the late Early Qujialing culture of human society by the early matriarchal clan to patriarchal social changes over time, in the process of changing the economic structure of the main labor force for the transformation from female to male, In addition, the religion of human sacrifice in the ideological field has also appeared in the evolution of civilization.