与中国的家猪早期畜养有关的若干问题

<正> 猪在中国的饲养有着悠久的历史。它素有“六畜”之一的称号。我国人民关心家猪在中国的起源和培育的问题。在我国,猪的畜养不但可以追溯到有文字历史的早期;更早,在我国各地新石器时代遗址中,猪的骨骼也是屡见不鲜的。据作者不完全的了解和经手的兽骨来看,猪可说是我国新石器时代遗址动物群中最常见的一种动物。例如:辽宁旅顺郭家屯遗址,大连遗址,内蒙古宁城遗址,赤峰夏家店和药王庙遗址,山东大汶口遗址,曲阜西夏侯遗址,陕西沣西遗址,西安半坡遗址,河南淅川遗址,江苏邳县刘林遗址,吴江梅堰遗址,南京北阴阳营遗

ON SOME PROBLEMS OF SUID DOMESTICATION IN CHINA

The history of pig-breeding can be traced back to the prehistory time in China. The suid remains were commonly found from various Neolithic sites of different stages all over China. Suid domestication were probably carried on during the whole Neolithic period in our country. Perhaps, our motherland is one of the earlist countries where wild pigs were first tamed successfully into livestock in the world.The present paper deals briefly with the following problems:1. The study of the origin of domestic pig should begin with investigating the mammalian bones recovered at Neolithic sites.2 . The method of animal age analysis is a valuable way to distinguish the domestic animal from its wild form.3. In Neolithic period the suid domestication were possibly not confined in one area in China.4. The problem of the origin and the development of domestic pig in China.The author proposes here that an animal in a site fauna seems to have "double characters" (means having dual properties) : one may be called zoological character, and the other the archaeological character. And in the meantime he would like to emphasize that this viewpoint is considerable important in the research of archaeological site fauna.