北辛文化是近年来提出和认识的一个早于大汶口文化的新石器时代文化。此类文化遗存,早在六十年代就有发现①,至七十年代又在山东汶、泗流域的大汶口文化遗址中多次出土。由于过去对这类遗存的认识不足,常与大汶口文化早期遗存相混淆。如在《谈谈大汶口文化》一文中,将大汶口遗址七十年代发掘的第七、六两层作为大汶口文化发展序列的第一期,并把第五层也包括在大汶口文化早期遗存之中②。 North Xin culture is proposed and recognized in recent years, a culture earlier Neolithic culture of the Neolithic. Such cultural relics, as early as the sixties found ①, to the seventies again in Shandong Wen, Si Valley Dawenkou cultural relics repeatedly unearthed. Due to the lack of understanding of such relics in the past, they are often confused with the early relics of Dawenkou Culture. For example, in the article “On Dawenkou Culture,” the seventh and sixth floors explored in the Dawenkou Site in the 1970s are taken as the first phase of the Dawenkoukou cultural development sequence, and the fifth floor is also included in the large Wenkou Culture early remains ②.