中文摘要：

海岱文化区主要以今山东省为中心，包含苏、皖两省淮河以北及豫东的广大地区，简称海岱地区或海岱区。岳石文化是海岱文化区内一支非常重要的考古学文化，同时期与岳石文化临近地区活跃着二里头文化、先商文化及其后继的二里冈商文化。

英文摘要：

The Yueshi culture period was a dynamic epoch when the culturo-geographieal pattern in the Haidai cultural area went through a great change. In the incipient phase the sites of the Yueshi culture sharply decreased in comparison with those of the Longshan period, their distribution was un- even, and the Dongyi ethnic group migrated from place to place. Later, the Yueshi culture entered a period of steady development, when various cultural types in the Haidai area seem relatively even in dis- tribution, and exchanges between the Yueshi and other cultures took place mainly in confluent areas of borderland. In the early Shang period, the settlements of the Shang culture in the territory of the Yueshi culture were merely a few inserted points and there was a close relationship and alliance between the Shang people and the Yi people. At the late stage of the Yueshi culture, as Shang power advanced east-wards, the Shang culture gradually entered the hinterland of the Haidai cultural area and replaced the Yueshi culture, while the latter constantly shrunk back, which led to a great change of the culturo-geographical pattern in the Haidai area.