西方农业起源理论评述  

Review of Western Theories about Origins of Agriculture

作　　者：张修龙[1] 吴文祥[2] 周扬[2] 

机构地区：[1]中国地质大学地球科学学院,武汉430074 [2]中国科学院地理科学与资源研究所,北京100101

出　　处：《中原文物》2010年第2期36-45,共10页Cultural Relics of Central China

摘　　要：自从柴尔德提出"新石器革命"的论断以来,农业起源成为世界考古学战略性研究的一项重要课题。各学科学者运用多种理论从各个角度探讨这一革命性进程,试图回答农业是何时、何地、为何和怎样起源的。西方学者为此作了不懈努力,取得了丰硕成果。本文简要回顾了西方农业起源的研究历程,然后从环境、社会和人类文化、认知力三个方面对西方有关农业起源的理论或假说进行总结和评述,旨在进一步促进国内外研究者对农业起源进行深入的研究。Since Childe put forward the term Neolithic Revolution, the origins of agriculture become a field of inquiry of its own. The main research objectives with regard to the origins of agriculture are to identify where, when, how and why domestication occurred. Western scholars of various disciplines applied a variety of theories to study this revolutionary process, and obtained great achievements. Based on the analysis of the relevant literatures, this paper first briefly reviews the history of western studies on the origins of agriculture, then summarizes and comments the theories or hypothesizes related to the origins of agriculture from three aspects of environmental, social and anthropological and cognitive, and aims to further promote researches on the origins of agriculture both at home and abroad.

关 键 词：农业起源 环境 社会和人类文化 认知力 

分 类 号：K871[历史地理—考古学及博物馆学]