Morphological Analysis Of Yu - Chi Prehistoric Settlement Site And Community

In recent years, the theory of settlement archaeology becomes more and more mature and the fruits of the related researches get more abundant. The case study on the settlement pattern has come into being a tendency of the development of related researches. At the same time, the large-scale architecture of houses from Yuchisi site arouses the attention of researchers and becomes new important data of the settlement pattern in the Neolithic period, especially in Dawenkou culture period. The thesis discusses problems about settlement patterns according to the study of Yuchisi site and Yuchisi region.The thesis has six main parts.Part I introduces the background of research and current studies of Archaeological Cultures in Northern Anhui, and at the same time defines the range of space-time.Part II reviews the history of researches on Yuchisi site and Yuchisi region, and explains the points and methods of this research.Part III discusses the environment and climate during the prehistoric period in Northern Anhui. The existence and development of human are closely linked with the environment and climate, especially in the prehistoric period, which are the basis of following analysis and research. So before outspreading in-depth discussion, the thesis introduces the environment and climate simply and then makes a demonstration through the relics of animals and plants from the involved archaeological sites.Part IV analyzes the settlement pattern of Yuchisi site, which is the core of the thesis. This study is carried out by examining different cultural phases of the site. By comparative analysis of the houses, the burials, the big round trench and the unearthed relics, it explains the problems of the scale of the settlement and population, the structure of the society and the family, social connections and the stages of the social development etc. from the late Dawenkou culture to the Longshan period. And this is a kind of general thinking on the progress of the development of the settlement.Part V concentrates on the study of settlement patterns of the Yuchisi Region. By considering the data of the status of the culture, the area of the site and the location of the site etc. of the sites in this region, this part discusses the structure of settlement and the social connections of the region and the condition of Yuchisi site in the region. And then by analyzing the data of the sites in whole northern Anhui and comparing Yuchisi site with the contemporary cultures of Haidai region, the study discusses the social class and the state of social development of Yuchisi site and Yuchisi region in the Neolithic period on the whole.Part VI do a conclusion on the settlement patterns, the structure of social organizations and the state of the social development etc. of Yuchisi site and Yuchisi region and points out the meeting questions during the process of this writing.