This article research on the tombs of inhibits of keeping a ball in mouth about the quantity, the tombs assign, the tomb scale, the goods buried with the dead, the way of burying and the proportion between the female and the male of the tombs in Wangyin site in Yanzhou city, Yedian site in Zou County and Dadunzi site in Pi County of Neolithic times in the Haidai Region. And made some extrapolations about the internal agent with the special behavior of keep a ball in mouth. And drew the conclusion: the phenomena of keeping a ball in mouth in the Haidai Region in Neolithic times have become symbol of the special status of the minor female in matriarchal society within this area. And study on the origin and development to this kind of behavior.PrefaceChapter one: Background material of the Haidai RegionIntroduce the concept of the Haidai Region, and talk about the space and time scope; the ecological environment in prehistoric as well as the correlation archaeology cultural context.Chapter two: Outline of the phenomena of keeping a ball in mouth in the Haidai RegionIntroduce the definition of the phenomena of keeping a ball in mouth, the discovery in site, the trace which remained on the skeleton about the behavior. Introduce the development of research results of the phenomena of keeping a ball in mouth in the Haidai Region. The goal and explanation of this paper were pointed in this chapter.Chapter three: Introduce the site with the phenomena of keeping a ball in mouth in the Haidai RegionIntroduction the three sites (include Wangyin,Yedian and Dadunzi site of Neolithic times in the Haidai Region.) and the graves with the behavior of keeping a ball in mouth.Chapter four: The religious background of Haidai Region and the performance of individual with the behavior of keep a ball in mouth.Introduced the customs, religious, the approval way of race group and so on in prehistoric inhibits in Haidai Region. and summarized the performance of individual with the behavior of keep a ball in mouth.Chapter five: The special of the individual grave with the Phenomena of keep a ball in mouth in Haidai Region.There are seven parts to make some discussion in this chapter. Including the proportion in the entire site, the way of burying, the tombs assign as well as the position, the tomb scale, the goods buried with the dead and the proportion between the female and the male of individual with the behavior of keep a ball in mouth in tombs, and the sense of the individual with the behavior of keep a ball in mouth in Haidai Region. And drew the conclusion: the phenomena of keep a ball in mouth in the Haidai Region in Neolithic times may become symbol of the special status of the minor female in matriarchal society within this area.Chapter six: Correlation discussion and conclusionFocuses on the behavior origin as well as the development evolution of the phenomena of keep a ball in mouth in this part. We can get that this kind of behavior very possibly existed in the Jiahu culture about 9000years ago, latter moves along with the crowd to the Haidai Region. By development and change, it becomes a special behavior way and the symbol of the special status of the minor female in Haidai Region and is was possible to evolve the keep coins or jade in mouth of the dead in tombs of the dynasties of later. |