洞庭湖区澧水流域的考古调查与发掘证明,该地区新石器时代早期(前大溪文化)遗存的埋藏十分丰富,并陆续发现了一批旧石器时代文化遗存,尤为重要的是发现了介于新旧石器过渡阶段的一种新的文化遗存——“八十垱下层类型”。这些新旧石器时代文化遗存的发现与发掘,引起了学术界的高度重视;为探索该地区新旧石器文化的渊源关系提供了极为重要的资料。澧水流域中下游地区,新旧石器时代文化遗址丰富而集中,这里已经成为研究旧石器时代向新石器时代过渡的重要地区。该地区出土的过渡时期的石器材料较多,包括打制的 Archaeological surveys and excavations in the Huangshui Valley in the Dongting Lake area prove that the remains of the Neolithic Age (former Daxi Culture) remain abundantly buried in the area and that some of the Paleolithic cultural relics have been discovered one after another. A New Cultural Remains of the Transitional Stage of the Neolithic and Neolithic Stone - “The Lower Eighty Thousand Types”. The discovery and excavation of these Neolithic cultural relics have aroused great attention of the academic community and provide extremely important information for exploring the origin of Neolithic stone culture in this area. In the middle and lower reaches of the Huangshui River basin, the Neolithic culture sites are rich and concentrated, and have become an important area for studying the transition from the Paleolithic to the Neolithic. The period unearthed in the transitional period more stone materials, including the production of