玉皇庙文化为冀北地区一支重要的青铜时代考古学文化,自发现后就备受学术界的关注,已经取得了令人瞩目的成果。本文对玉皇庙文化的发现与研究历程进行概述,并对玉皇庙文化的分布与特征、年代、族属及源流等几方面问题的研究现状进行梳理。同时指出由于目前玉皇庙文化遗存仅发现有墓葬,而少有居址资料,对玉皇庙文化的研究造成了一定的困难,而对于玉皇庙文化的去向,以及经济形态、生活方式、社会结构等问题也一直无法进行深入的讨论。
Discovery and Study on the Yuhuangmiao CultureAs one important Bronze culture in the North of Hebei Province, scholars pay more attentions to the Yuhuangmiao Culture . The paper do some works on those problems: the culture' s discovery and research, its distribution , date , tribe and origin. Also we have no way to find the developing direction of the culture, its economic formation, life style, or the social structure etc, since now we have no material about its living site but only some tombs.