原始社会史的分期法有其独特的历史,缺乏对它的研究就无法理解问题的当前状况。这既同考古学、人类学、史料学等专门学科的分期有关,也基本上与原始社会历史过程的一般历史的或一般的划分有关。在马克思主义科学中,原始社会史的分期问题总是被当做对人类远古时代进行理论阐释 The staging method of primitive social history has its unique history. Without the study of it, the current status of the problem can not be understood. This relates not only to the stages of specialized disciplines such as archeology, anthropology, and historiography, but also to the general historical or general classification of the historical processes of primitive society. In Marxist science, the staging of the primitive social history is always treated as a theoretical interpretation of the ancient human history