我国东北地区青铜文化的考古研究开始于50年代。首先是能够把一些广泛使用石器生产工具并已出现青铜冶铸技术的考古遗存,从过去认识的“石器时代考古文化”中分离出来。这一时期,在相继发现的战国以前墓葬中出土的不同于中原式的青铜器,以及野外调查采集标本呈现出的复杂文化内涵,也提示人们这里可能存在着年代更为久远的金属文明。60年代初,在赤峰附近发掘的一个以多层文化层叠压的遗址命名的夏家店下层文化和夏家店上层文化,使内蒙古东部和辽宁西部青铜文化考古实现了重大突破。在田野考古工作中,还将这两种青 Archeology of Bronze Culture in Northeast China began in the 1950s. The first is to be able to separate some of the archeological relics that make extensive use of stone tools and have developed bronze smelting techniques, from the “Stone Age Archeology” known in the past. During this period, the unearthed bronze ware unearthed in the tombs previously discovered in the Warring States Period and the complex cultural connotations collected by the field survey collected specimens also suggest that there may be metal civilization with a more ancient age. In the early 1960s, a Xiajiadian lower culture and Xiajiadian upper culture named after a multi-layered cultural site excavated near Chifeng made a major breakthrough in the bronze cultural archeology in eastern Inner Mongolia and western Liaoning. Archeology in the field, these two will be green