Research On Joint Burial Urns Of The Prehistory In Haidai Region

For a long time, burials have been counted as one of the important grounds of the researches on our ancient ancestors' lives, ideas and social organizational structures. The phenomena of the joint burials of prehistory in Haidai (æµ·å²±) region have been playing an irreplaceable role in our researching the changes in the society and social structures of prehistory for the time and places of their occurrence and unique features.This paper discusses primarily the concept, positions and roles of the joint burials, at the same time showing the researching methods involved here. Before coming on to the concrete analysis, the author made the cultural orders of prehistory in this region and the field of research clear, dividing the previous findings and researches of the prehistory joint burials into 2 stages, listing main researchers, their contents and achievements, and so on.The author made his efforts to analyze the characteristics of the developments and changes of the joint burials appearing in different archaeological cultures from two aspects: according to vertical aspect, the author concluded the features of the overall thread of the changes of the prehistory joint burials in order to discover the evolution of the social organizational structures; according to horizontal aspect, the author analyzed the regional properties (including common characteristic and difference) based on the statistics from various zones made before, then revealed the social development reflected by all prehistory joint burials in Haidai region.The author made such a hypothesis that The occurrence of the joint burials in Haidai region ought to be to accept the result that Zhongyuan area culture affects after making the statistics and contrastive analysis of the time of occurrence, scales, local conventions and types of the grave-goods of the joint burials in both Zhongyuan and Haidai regions. With the help of the relative data, the author interpreted the nature, position and role of the joint burials in prehistory Haidai region. In a word, the author endeavored to make reasonable and scientific interpretations of the series correlative problems such as occurrence, prosperity, expanding and decline of the prehistory joint burials in Haidai region on the above trial and comprehensive analysis and researches, furtherly, made a deduction of the functional dimensions of the joint burials in prehistoric society studies of Haidai region, And deeply think the method and approach problem by the analysis of the grave that knows ancient society.