广义上的"石构遗存",是指史前先民遗留下来的堆石、组石、铺石、立石、列石等石质建筑的统称。西辽河流域是我国史前石构遗存密集分布的中心区域,石构遗迹普遍存在于本区新石器时代各种考古学文化遗存之中。小河西文化的石构灶,是目前所见中国境内史前遗存中出现的时代最早的石构遗存,具有独立起源的文化发生学意义,可视为本区史前石构遗存起源时期。兴隆洼文化时期是本区早期石构遗存获得初步发展时期,此间的石构遗迹,除了在本区土著文化传统上继续普遍被利用为上层分子和殷实人家居室中的灶外,还在当时社会精神层面的宗教礼仪生活中发挥着极其重要的作用。兴隆洼文化积石冢,应是红山文化积石冢的直接文化渊源。查海遗址发现的大型龙形石塑与后世帝王皆以真龙天子自居,并且皆在城中的宗庙祭祖的传统礼俗,也应有着某种内在的文化渊源关系。
In broad sense,"stone structure remains"referred to the legacy of the prehistoric ancestors of rockfill,group of stones and other vertical stone column architectures.West Liaohe basin is the dense center area of China's prehistoric stone structure remains.Stone construction sites generally exist in various archaeological remains of Neolithic culture in this region.Small West culture stone structure stove is currently seen as the earliest times stone structure remains of prehistoric sites in Chinese territory,with independent origins of cultural significance,and can be regarded as the remains of prehistoric stone structure during the origin time.Xinglongwa culture period is the preliminary development period of early stone structure remains.The stone construction sites,in addition to indigenous cultures in the area of common tradition being used by the upper strata and rich people play an extremely important role in social,spiritual and ritual life.The stone mounds in XingLongwa has direct cultural connections with Hongshan culture stone mounds.The remains in Zhahai,the huge dragon shape sculpture,induces later kings to respect themselves as real dragon King.This is used in the traditional sacrifice of family temples,which has inner cultural relations within the two aspects.