贺兰山岩画是人类历史上活动于贺兰山地区的北方猎牧民族凿刻在岩石上的一种岩刻艺术。它记录了远古时期贺兰山的自然生态和北方猎牧民族的生产方式及其社会的经济形态。岩画内容所反映的题材主要是狩猎和放牧,以及巫师作法、祭拜仪式等宗教活动。贺兰山岩画的内容,除了反映猎牧经济以外,没有表现出采集或其他生产方式存在。在我国内蒙古、宁夏、甘肃、青海等北方地区的草原、荒漠和沙漠地区,发现有数百处以细石器为主要文化特征的文化遗址,其中以我们与美国合作调查试掘的青铜峡鸽子山遗址最具代表性。鸽子山旧石器时代遗址共有上、下两个文化层,上文化层 Helan Mountain rock paintings in the history of human activities in the Helan Mountain region of northern hunting nomadic people carved in rock rock carving art. It records the natural ecology of Helan Mountain in ancient times and the mode of production of the northern hunting and pastoral peoples and their social economic forms. The main themes reflected in the contents of the rock paintings are hunting and grazing, as well as religious activities such as wizardry and worshiping ceremonies. Helanshan rock paintings, in addition to reflect the hunting pasture economy, did not show the acquisition or other modes of production exist. In the grasslands, deserts and deserts in the northern regions of Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, Qinghai and other northern regions of China, there are hundreds of cultural sites with microlithographies as the main cultural features. Among them, the Qinghaixia Pigeon Hill site The most representative. Pigeon Hill Palaeolithic sites have a total of two cultural levels, the cultural level