试论郑州西山仰韶文化晚期古城址的性质

This paper introduces the new found walled town at Xishan of Zhengzhou city and its age, and believes that it was at the earliest development of the town or city and was the result of several thousand years of development of the neolithic cultures in China and also a product of military democratism of the late primitive society. It considers that the walled town was not only a fortress to the outside groups but also a settlement centre of the area.