原始社会,是人类社会发展史的最初形态.它经历的时间最长,占去了人类以往全部历史长河的绝大部分.对于其中许多关系人类社会发展的重大问题:例如人类是怎样产生的?最初的人类是怎样生活的?有什么样的社会组织和婚姻形态?私有制和阶级又是怎样出现的?……等等作出科学的阐述,是史学研究和历史教学中的重大课题之一.但是,过去国内有关原始社会史的著作,包括通俗性的读物并不多,形式又多以文字叙述为主,缺乏必要的形象反映.对于人们认识久远而漫长的原始社会的历史来说,这不能不说是一个很大的缺陷.最近,天津人民美术出版社出版、中国历史博物馆编辑的《简 Primitive society is the first form of the history of the development of human society.It has experienced the longest, occupying the vast majority of all the history of mankind in the past.For many of the major issues related to the development of human society: for example, how did human beings produce? What kind of social organization and the form of marriage? What kind of social organization and the form of marriage? How did the private ownership and class emerge? ... and so on to make a scientific exposition is one of the major topics in the history research and history teaching. However, In the past, the books on primitive social history in the past did not include many popular readings, mostly written narratives, and lack of the necessary image to reflect, and this can not be done for people’s understanding of the long and primitive history of primitive society Not to mention is a big flaw recently, Tianjin People’s Fine Arts Publishing House, editor of the Chinese Museum of History, "Jane