The Formation and Distribution of Yin-Pu Culture in Central Taiwan: A Perspective From the Analysis of Ceramic Typology
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Chi, Ko-An
Abstract
Yin-Pu Culture is the representative of Late Neolithic in Central Taiwan. It is famous as Gray-black pottery and special artifacts, for example: Gray-black pottery with pattern, the pottery Ding with animal foot shape, the pottery Dou, Stone Knives, Shoulder-shape Stone Axes, Perforated Stone Arrows, and so on. About the Formation of Yin-Pu Culture. Yin-Pu Culture was regarded as the foreign culture by the different pottery color and the decoration with Niumatou culture. But both of them have some common ground in pottery. Therefore there is no Conclusive of the Yin-Pu Culture that it was foreign culture or translated by local Culture. About the End of the Yin-Pu Culture, the Chronology of Yin-Pu Culture and Fanziyuan Culture were overlapping. Scholars have different opinions to the Chronology about it.The Differences from the different definition of Yin-Pu Culture by Scholars. To understanding the formation and distribution of Yin-Pu Culture. It should review the core of Yin-Pu Culture, to identify with the other Cultures. This thesis attempts to use Ceramic Typology as a method to observe the Yin-Pu Culture’s ceramic.With the evolution of the style of ceramic patterns, find out the process of social and cultural change, then explore the impact of the possible causes and prehistoric cultural change caused. As the reason of the Pottery patterns arrangement, Although previous scholars found that the accused Niumatou culture and Yin-Pu Culture significantly different, but the shape is actually rendered many heritage place.That Yin-Pu Culture is based on the Niumatou culture; Fanziyuan Culture’s pottery shapes also have many similarities with Yin-Pu Culture. Description is not breaking style change between prehistoric cultures of the central region, and more likely to be the same strain evolution In addition, pottery of the Yin-Pu Culture period in the central region, its decorative elements type having a clear consistency between the wide area, showing the presence of the crowd common belief, this may also imply that the reason Yin-Pu Culture forming. The ceramic typology of central Taiwan was analyzed in the thesis. The result provided the evidence belongs to material aspect. The chronic of archaeological culture in central Taiwan also become clear after the analysis. It might become basement for revelant researches in the future.
Subjects
Ceramic Typology
Yin-Pu Culture
Niumatou cCulture
Fanziyuan Culture
Chronology
Type
thesis
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