西安半坡博物馆于1958年建成开馆,它是在半坡遗址考古发掘的基础上建立起来的,属遗址性博物馆。建馆之初,它的任务主要是通过对半坡遗址出土文物的陈列和保护向国内外观众宣传我们中华民族灿烂的古文化遗存。鉴于该馆的业务力量较强,省文化文物主管部门于七十年代初开始给该馆下达考古研究任务,主要负责全省古生物、古人类及石器时代考古的野外调查、发掘清理及研究工作,半坡博物馆为搞好这项工作,于一九七三年增设考古队建制。十多年来,考古队在全省开展了大量工作:在陕北、陕南及关中调 Xi’an Banpo Museum was opened in 1958, it is built on the basis of the archaeological excavations of the Banpo site, and is a site museum. At the beginning of the establishment of the museum, its mission is to promote the splendid ancient cultural relics of the Chinese nation to the domestic and foreign audiences through the exhibition and protection of the cultural relics unearthed in the Banpo site. In view of its strong operational strength, the department in charge of cultural relics began assigning archaeological research missions to the museum in the early seventies. The department is mainly responsible for the field investigation of paleontology, ancients and stone archeology in the province, to find out the cleanup and research work, Banpo Museum to do this work, in 1973 the establishment of an additional archeology team. For more than a decade, the archeology team has carried out a great deal of work in the province: in northern Shaanxi, southern Shaanxi and Guanzhong