内容摘要： 本文所称的“早期游牧文化”，是指中国古代游牧民族文化。就本文所具体讨论的西藏高原这一区域而言，包括了从吐蕃王朝兴起之前的史前时代以及吐蕃王朝时代这样一个年代范围之内，主要集中于汉唐时期，大致可与考古学界所提出的西藏“早期金属器时代”和吐蕃王朝时代这两个时空概念相对应。

Abstract: Along with the archaeological investigations and discoveries of the early nomadic cultures in Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, Gansu and Tibet, new tendencies are emerging in the theories and methods of the researches on the early settlements of nomadic cultures in China, and new enlightenments for the practices of settlement archaeology. This paper tries to analyze the basic features, cultural natures, external characteristics and other factors of the settlement remains of the early nomadic cultures in Tibet with the new theories and observation methods, and examine them in the macroscopic interregional perspective, in order to induce the approaches and paradigms for the systematic researches on the ancient nomadic cultures in Tibet.

关键词：早期游牧文化;聚落考古;西藏考古;

作者：霍巍(四川大学中国藏学研究所)

来源： 《考古》 2013年 第4期

中图分类号：K874