一概述粤东闽南地区是指莲花山一博平岭一线以南的广东省东部和福建省东南部区域,行政区划包括粤东的潮州、揭阳、汕头市和闽南的漳州、厦门的全部,以及广东省梅州、汕尾两市和福建省泉州的部分地区,与现代闽南语方言区分布范围大体一致。整个区域的地势由西北向东南倾斜下降,大致为山地到丘陵再到冲积平原和滨海低地的格局。1936年开始,意大利神父麦兆良(Fr Rafael Maglioni)就在粤东闽南地区(主要是广东海丰和福建武平)进行了长达十年的田野考古调查,他将采集到的古代遗物分为沙坑北、三角尾、菝子园和宝楼等四期文化,认为它们分别代表了当地从新石器时代至青铜时代的不同文化~①。约略同时,两位中国学者——饶宗颐、林惠祥也分别对广东 An Overview The southern part of eastern Guangdong means the eastern part of Guangdong Province and the southeastern part of Fujian Province south of Lianhuashan-Binboingling Line. The administrative divisions include all of Chaozhou, Jieyang, Shantou and Minnan in Zhangzhou and Xiamen in eastern Guangdong, Some areas in Meizhou, Shanwei, and Quanzhou in Fujian Province are broadly in line with the dialect area of ​​modern Hokkien dialect. The terrain of the entire region declined from northwest to southeast, roughly the pattern of mountains to hills and then to alluvial plain and coastal lowland. Starting in 1936, the Italian Father Fr Rafael Maglioni conducted a ten-year field archeological survey in southern Fujian in the eastern part of Guangdong (mainly Haifeng, Guangdong and Wuping, Fujian Province), dividing the collected ancient relics into Bunker North, Triangle tail, Baizi Park and Baolu four culture, that they represent the local Neolithic to Bronze Age, different cultures ~ ①. At about the same time, two Chinese scholars, Rao Zongyi and Lin Huixiang, respectively, also addressed Guangdong