夏家店下层文化遗迹、遗物从20世纪20年代末最初被发现,到20世纪60年代初开始被考古界认识,到20世纪末学术界对它有一个比较全面清楚的了解,时间已过去了70余年。该文化的分布地域,北起内蒙东南的西拉木伦河,南达冀北南缘的拒马河,西起冀西北的壶流河,东抵辽西医巫闾山及天津海滨一线;其延续时间,上起龙山期晚末,经夏代,至商代早期的二里岗上层期或稍晚,约600余年。是我国这一时期最重要的考古文化之一。70余年来,对之进行分析研究的学术论文不下数十篇。在有了如此普遍和深入的研究之后,颇感对这一重要考古文化的研究状况作一较为详密的综述十分必要,是为本文写作的缘起。 Xiajiadian lower cultural relics, artifacts from the late 1920s was first discovered, by the early 1960s began to be recognized by the archaeological community, by the late 20th century the academic community to have a more comprehensive understanding of it, the time has passed 70 I year. The cultural distribution of the region, north of Inner Mongolia in the southeast of the West Lamulun River, south of southern Hebei Juma River, west of Northwest of the pot Liu River, east of Western Liaoning Wuxu Mountain and the Tianjin coastline; its duration, starting from Late Longshan period, the Xia Dynasty, to the Early Shang Dynasty Erligang upper stage or later, about 600 years. It is one of the most important archaeological cultures of our time in this period. For more than 70 years, no fewer than a dozen papers have been analyzed and studied. With such a general and in-depth study, it is quite necessary to give a more detailed review of the research status of this important archaeological culture, which is the origin of the writing.