由平等时代到等级时代——以上海地区为中心

上海地区丰富的自然资源和优越的生态环境为人类提供了良好的生存条件，使这一地区在史前时期就产生了先进的早期文明。马家浜文化与崧泽文化是上海地区新石器时代早期文化，发展脉络清晰、传承有序，属于同一谱系的史前考古学文化。上海地区两文化的发展状况表明，在平等社会与阶级社会间有“等级社会”存在。

Shanghai Region: Social Evolution from Equality to Hierarchy

It is Shanghai's rich natural resources and excellent ecological environment that have supplied human beings with good survival conditions.It has also,for the region,bred advanced prehistoric civilization.As the early cultures of the Neolithic Age,both Ma-Jia-Bang Culture and Song-Ze Culture belong to the pedigree of prehistoric archeological culture,characteristic of clear development and orderly heritance.This essay,focusing on Shanghai's Ma-Jia-Bang Culture and Song-Ze Culture,and by analysis of the development of the early civilization in Shanghai,probes into the developing conditions and social forms of these two cultures,especially the evolution from equality to hierarchy.The author tries to prove that there is the "society of hierarchy" between the society of equality and the society of classes.