| Abstract: | According to archaeological data from about sixty samples the relative stability of physical and human geographical environment
in the tropical zone of China is discussed in this paper. Because of the superior natural environment, sufficient food resources
and a sparse population resulting in the absence of social requirement to transform the productive forces, the advancement
of economy and society was stagnated during prehistorical period in China’s tropics. Compared with northern China, the appearance
of ground stone tool stagnated about 3,000 years, the beginning of Bronze Age, about 1,000 years, and the agriculture, 2,500–3,000
years. The no ceramics age continued till the early Neolithic Age and the appearance of colour or white ceramics was 2,000
years later than that in northern China. The life form of migration to gather and to hunt continued till the middle Neolithic
Age, and the fixed settlement based on agriculture 1,000–2,000 years stagnated. The clan commune just appeared at the end
of the Neolithic Age which was 2, 000–3,000 years later than that in northern China. |
