前言回溯湖南新石器时代的考古工作,1955年7月长沙县五区龙头铺(现为株洲市龙头铺镇)烟敦冲遗址的试掘可以作为开始的标志~([2])。由于种种原因,在此后的20余年里,真正的田野工作并不多。1974年秋季澧县梦溪三元宫遗址的发掘,才正式开启湖南新石器考古的序幕~([2])。30多年的田野作业不仅构建起了洞庭湖地区新石器文化的时空框架,还开展了针对一系列考古学课题的许多有益尝试,这种学术尝试为重建湖 Foreword Back to the Archaeological Work of Neolithic Age in Hunan Province, the trial excavation of the Yadongchong Site in Longxiu District, Changsha City, July 1955 (now the town of Longtoupu, Zhuzhou City) can be used as the starting mark ~ ([2]). Due to various reasons, real field work has not been much for more than two decades. Excavation of the Sanyuan palace in Mengxian, Qixian in the autumn of 1974, officially opened the prelude to the archeology of Neolithic in Hunan ~ ([2]). More than 30 years of fieldwork have not only built the temporal and spatial framework of the Neolithic culture in the Dongting Lake area, but also have carried out many beneficial attempts to solve a series of archeological issues. This academic attempt is to reconstruct the lake