齐家文化由安特生发现于20世纪20年代。夏鼐先生根据类型学和地层学证据,证明了齐家文化晚于仰韶时期,并指出其绝对年代“不会比公元前2000年早许多,但是也许是比之晚过许多”~([1])。随着研究的不断深入,齐家文化晚于马厂文化的观点已成为共识。夏鼐先生提出的关于齐家文化年代下限问题,则比较复杂。20世纪80年代,张忠培先生在《齐家文化的研究》中认为,齐家文化三期已经进入到夏纪年,其年代均晚于客省庄文化~([2])。 Qijia Culture was discovered by Andersen in the 1920s. According to typology and stratigraphy evidence, Mr. Xia Yu proved that the Qijia culture was later than the Yangshao period and pointed out that its absolute age “will not be much earlier than in 2000 BC, but may be much later than that” [1]). With the deepening of research, the view that Qijia Culture is later than that of Ma Culture has become the consensus. Mr. Xia Yu proposed on the lower limit of the era of Qijia culture, is more complicated. In the 1980s, Mr. Zhang Zhongpei considered in “Study of Qijia Culture” that the third phase of Qijia Culture has entered Xia Dynasty, and its age is later than that of Kezhangzhuang Culture ~ ([2]).