Zhengzhou Region Prehistoric To The Shang And Zhou Dynasties Settlement Pattern Analysis

Zhengzhou locates in the inner land of Central Plains, and its ancient social evolution process plays a very important role in Chinese history. Now the complete archaeological culture pedigree have been established in Zhengzhou area, and a series of significant archaeological discoveries have been found in recent years, but the settlement patterns research of ancient sites in Zhengzhou still are not enough and has a long way to go. Thus, based on the archaeology works of the past, the author tries to analysis the settlement patterns in Zhengzhou area, and shows the whole evolution process of ancient society. According to the size and location of the ancient sites, this paper gives a systematic analysis of the development process and spatial distribution of the settlements from Prehistoric to Shang and Zhou period of Zhengzhou, and shows how the ancient society in this area developed from equal society arrive to hierarchical society, and then go to the complex society. This paper is divided into three parts.Part Ⅰ : preface. This part reviews the naturally environment and the archaeology working history of Zhengzhou area. And then briefly introduces the research methods and the frame of this paper.Part Ⅱ: It is the main part of this paper, and mainly discusses the settlement patterns' evolution of Zhengzhou in detail. The discussion is divided seven periods: Peiligang period, Yangshao period, Longshan period, Erlitou period, early Shang, late Shang and Xizhou period. Firstly, according to the size and location of the ancient sites, we can get seven different maps. Then we can pick up the settlement sites' developmental tendency by contrasting and analyzing the seven maps, divide the sites to different settlement, and give a special introduction for the bigger sites of each settlement patterns.Part Ⅲ: conclusion. Based on the analysis of part Ⅱ, we get the site numbers of the different period, and then we discuss the different stages and introduce the whole evolution process of the ancient society in Zhengzhou area. Finally, this paper gives a briefly analysis for the problems during writing and how to solve them in the future.