最近拜读了曲石同志的新书《中国玉器时代》。对书中第一部分“论中国的玉器时代”有一些与作者不同的看法。不当之处还望曲石同志及考古学界的前辈、同仁批评指正。曲石在文章中通过对红山文化,中原地区龙山文化和长江下游的良渚文化等距今5500-4000年的几个考古学文化的分析论证,得出一个结论,即这些文化有着广泛的共同点,都以玉器为物质文化的先进代表。它们早已超越了新石器时代考古学的定义,但又远远落后于青铜时代。因此应当把以这些文化所代表的时代称之为“中国的玉器时代”。我认为曲石同志的结论是片面的,不妥当的。磨制石器、定居、农业和制陶乃是新石器时代考古文化的几大基本要素。而作为曲石的主要论据的几种考古文化并没有超出新 Recently read a new book entitled “Chinese jade era.” The first part of the book, “On China’s Jade Age,” has some different views with the author. Inappropriate also hope comrades and archaeologists in the forerunner, colleagues criticize correction. Qu stone in the article through the Hongshan culture, the Longshan culture in the Central Plains region and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in Liangzhu culture is equidistant from 5500 to 4000 years of archeology and culture of the analysis and demonstration reached the conclusion that these cultures have a broad Common ground, all with jade as an advanced representative of material and cultural. They have long been beyond the definition of Neolithic archeology, but lag far behind the Bronze Age. Therefore, the era represented by these cultures should be called “China’s Jade Age.” I think Comrade Qu stone’s conclusion is one-sided and inappropriate. Grinding stone, settlement, agriculture and pottery are several basic elements of Neolithic archeology. Several archeological cultures, the main argument of Qu stone, have not gone beyond new ones