The Wei River Neolithic Kitchen Site

As important facilities used for keeping warm and cooking inside the house, stoves contact close to people's daily lives. The change and development of the form of Neolithic stoves, not only reflected the change of cultures, but also reflected the difference of districts, that can reveal cultural feature and living condition of people in the different periods and regions in some extent. So it is one of the important data to the research of Neolithic human social.This article divides Neolithic period of Weihe valley into three stages of cultural development for Laoguantai,Yangshao and Longshan, introduces the case of discovery of typical stove relics in typical sites of each cultural stage, and sorts stove relics of each cultural stage according to the dissimilarity of form and structure; Then generalizes the changing process of time and space of stove relics of each cultural stage in Weihe valley; at last, it discusses some related problems as relation between the development regulation of stove relics and the sorting of cultural stages, relation between the form of stove relics and the form of cooking implements, relation between the form of stove relics and the form of houses.