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中国南方新石器时代遗址哺乳动物群初探

张明华   

  1. 浙江省博物馆自然部
  • 出版日期:2011-11-22 发布日期:2011-11-22

A PRELIMINARY STUDY OF MAMMALIAN FAUNA IN THE NEOLITHIC SITES OF SOUTH CHINA

ZHANG Minghua   

  1. Department of Natural History, Zhejiang Provincial Museum
  • Online:2011-11-22 Published:2011-11-22

摘要: 我国新石器时代遗址动物群的研究,始于三十年代德日进(P.Teilhard de Chardin)和杨钟健对殷墟兽骨的工作(1936)。近三十余年来,众多遗址的发掘,使这方面的研究工作取得了不少新的成果。在此基础上,笔者对全新世开始以来中国南方哺乳动物的区系特征和形成过程,试作一初步的概述。

Abstract: The paper tries to give a review of evolution of the Neolithic Sites mammalian fauna of South China.It seems that almost all members of the Neolithic mammalian fauna of South China are consisted to be the living species, but it is not similar in the zoogeographical distribution, the animal distribution of the former was more extensive than the latter. For example, more than 2500 years ago, the Asian elephant(Elephas maximus) probably existed in Yangyuan, Hebei; Anyang, Henan; Taian, Shandong etc. which are approximately corresponding to the Lower Huang-he (Yellow river) region, and today its habitat has retreated to a very limited area in the southwest part of Yunnan Province.There is little doubt that the living mammalian fauna of South China was derived from the Holocene mammalian fauna of South China.The evolution is mainly due to two factors: one is the climate which has become cooler and cooler since 2500 years ago. the other is human economic activities which became more deteriorating to many mammalian forms in the latter time.