十年来,《农业考古》发表了二十多篇各地农业考古概述,对于了解和综合各地农业考古的一般情况提供了许多有用的资料。其中有许多内容涉及到了农具,从而进一步证明,农具是农业考古的主要内容之一。农业的历史是从农具开始的,离开了农具就没有农业可言。农业之前,人们虽然已经懂得了渔猎和采集,甚至使用了一定的工具,但所采集的食物,不论是瓜果蔬菜还是稻麦,都是自然生长的,都不是农作物,因而采 Over the past decade, Agricultural Archeology has published over twenty agricultural archeological summaries and has provided many useful sources for understanding and synthesizing the general situation of agricultural archeology all over the country. Many of these topics deal with farm tools, further demonstrating that farm tools are one of the major components of agricultural archeology. The history of agriculture begins with farm implements, leaving farm implements without agriculture at all. Before agriculture, although people already know about fishing, hunting and collecting, and even used certain tools, the collected foods, whether fruits, vegetables, or rice and wheat, are naturally grown and are not crops. Therefore,