A Preliminary Study on the Sites of Stone Cities from Neolithic Age in Central and Southern Inner Mongolia
Wei Jian;Cao Jian'en
A higher stage in the evolution of primitive settlement, the city usually marked the birth of civilization. Since the 1970s, a dozen of the sites of early cities were found to thesouth of the Yinshan Mountains, in the hilly country with Baotou and the Hai-Dai area atthe center. The author of this essay works on the characteristics of these cities, and probestheir periodization. He believes that the upper chronological limit of the cities is about 5000year B. P., and the lower limit, 4300 years B. P. Concurrent with the emergence and devel-opment of these cities was a marked progress in economy and drastic change in socialstructure. A crescendo in social and ethnic conflict led to the appearance of stone citieswith a defensive function. As the climate became colder, however, agricultural economycame to fall in the area. The animal husbandry that relaced farming explains the eventualdesolation of these cities.
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【CateGory Index】： K875
【CateGory Index】： K875
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