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| THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE RISE AND DECLINE OF CULTIVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE FROM THE NEW STONE AGE TO THE BRONZE AGE IN WESTERN LIAONING PROVINCE |
| LI Yong-hua, ZHANG Xiao-yong |
| Urban and Environment Institute of Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China |
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Abstract Development of human social economic formation can not be separated from surrounding natural world. The natural world exerts a tremendous influence to the collective human activities. Its obvious evidences are the changes of the production modes, the way of life and labor productivity. And it directly affects the course and the characteristics of social development to a certain extent.
Western Liaoning province is located in the region that farming and livestock crisscross in north of China. It is not only the transition region from the arid region to the half-arid region, but also the ecosystem transition region that makes a sensitive response to environmental change. Form prehistoric age to Ming and Qing Dynasty, the land utilization pattern undergone many processes that farming and livestock crisscrossed and developed in the region.
By analyzing the characteristics of archaeological culture and the relationship between the rise and decline of cultivation and environmental change from the New Stone Age to the Bronze Age in the study area, this paper demonstrates the phenomenon that the cultural development has undergone retrogression for many times influenced by the rise and decline of cultivation since the New Stone Age.
①From 8000aB.P.to 5000aB.P., Mega thermal was a great warm period. Xinglongwa Culture, which was primitive cultivation society, was born.
②While from 5000aB.P.to 4000aB.P, the cold period, the agricultural economy disintegrated.
③From 4000aB.P.to 3000aB.P., the warm period, the settled agriculture was prosperous.
④To 3000aB.P.the cold period, culture disintegrates again.
The direct cause of the decline of cultivation and the backward culture were the cold event from 5000aB.P.to 4000aB.P. and the function of freezing climate in the period of ironware. The severe fluctuating process of the environmental factors prevented the normal evolution and development of regional culture and the production-economy formation.
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Received: 07 March 2003
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2004, Vol. 19 
