城,作为聚落的高级形态,与人类社会及文化的进步密切相关,通常被视为文明起源的要素或重要标志之一。中国史前城址的考古发现最早可以追溯到20世纪30年代初山东历城(今章丘)县城子崖遗址和河南安阳后冈遗址的发掘。但明确得到肯定并引起学术界关注的却是70年代后期河南登封王城岗和淮阳平粮台这两座城址的发现。随后,考古工作者又相继在黄河、长江流域发现了约40座龙山时代城址。这些发现及诸多研究成果都使人们对我国史前城址的发展概况和 As a high form of settlement, the city is closely related to the progress of human society and culture and is usually regarded as one of the important elements or important symbol of the origin of civilization. The earliest archaeological discoveries of Chinese prehistoric sites date back to the excavations of the Chengziyashan site in the ancient city of Licheng (now Zhangqiu) and the Hougang site in Anyang in the early 1930s. However, it was definitely found that the academic circles paid close attention to the discovery of the two sites of Dengfeng Wangchenggang in Henan and Pingliangtai in Huaiyang in the late 1970s. Subsequently, archaeologists have successively in the Yellow River, the Yangtze River valley found about 40 Longshan era city site. These findings and many research results have led to the general survey of the development of prehistoric cities in our country