石棚山墓地地处辽西地区,是小河沿文化一处重要的墓地。本文通过对墓地随葬陶器的类型学分析,得到一个新的墓地分期方案,将墓地墓葬分为三期。墓地可分为A、B、C三区,其中B、C两区还可划分为两个小区。A、B两区的年代相对要早于c区。各区内晚期墓葬围绕早期墓葬呈弧线状排列。从陶器组合及陶器装饰风格看,墓地人群可划分为甲、乙两组。两组人群使用墓地的时间大体同时,并有其各自的墓区,但彼此在空间分布和葬俗方面亦存在混合的现象。
Sitting in the Liaoxi Area, the Shipengshan cemetery is one of the most important cemeteries which belong to the Xiaoheyan culture. In this article, the author reanalyzes the typology of ceramics and proposes a new threephase chronology according to assemblages and morphology of ceramics. The entire cemetery can be subdivided into three sections. One particular pattern is that in each section, tombs dating to later periods usually were intentionally buried surrounding early-phase tombs and represent a "radiation" pattern. According to assemblages and decorative motifs, the occupants might be sub-divided into two major contemporary groups which had their independent sections but showed certain degrees of homogeneity regarding their burial eustoms.