岭南文化形成的历史地理背景岭南地区早在12.9万年前的原始社会就有人类活动,其中,马坝人遗址是旧石器中期文化的代表。粤地新石器时代的原始文化则以粤北的“石峡文化”和粤中的“西樵山文化”为代表。广东迄今发现的青铜文化遗址已有三四百处,墓葬100多座,各类青铜器八九百件。广东青铜文化遗存的年 Historical and Linguistic Background of Lingnan Culture Lingnan has primitive human activities as early as 129,000 years ago. Among them, the Maba people’s site is a representative of the mid-Paleolithic culture. The primitive culture of the Neolithic period in Guangdong was represented by the “Stone Gorge Culture” in northern Guangdong and the “Xiqiao Mountain Culture” in Guangdong. Guangdong has so far found bronze cultural sites have three or four hundred, more than 100 tombs, all kinds of bronze eight hundred or nine hundred pieces. Years of Guangdong’s bronze relics