我国商周奴隶制社会,是以高度发达的青铜冶铸业闻名于世的。近一个世纪以来,中外学者围绕商周青铜器的用途、器形、纹饰诸问题进行了大量的研究。在最近二十年中,对于合金成份的分析及冶铸方法的实验,也有不少的论文问世。唯独对于商周青铜器主要成份铜锡的来源,虽然很多学者在论著中都有涉及,但缺乏系统的研究。从八十年代开始,中国地 The slavery society in China’s Shang and Zhou Dynasties is well-known for its highly developed bronze smelting industry. For nearly a century, Chinese and foreign scholars have made a great deal of research on the use, shape and decoration of Shang and Zhou bronzes. In the last two decades, there have been quite a few papers published on the analysis of alloy composition and the experiment of metallurgical methods. The only source of copper and tin, the main ingredient of the Shang and Zhou bronzes, although many scholars involved in the treatise, lacks systematic research. From the eighties onwards, China