商周「稀有」青銅器類，乃是相對於學界習用的「中原」或「華夏」為「主流」的「邊緣化」現象。本文試圖舉出三種器類，如在容器系列中，西周山西晉侯墓地以【銅三足瓮】及【銅雙耳罐】制，而自外於中原的鼎、簋、鬲、壺等流行器類；如在兵器系列中，東北夏家店文化以【柱脊曲刃短莖劍】制而自外於中原的【戈】及【扁莖直刃有首劍】制系統。這些稀有器類在黃河長江兩流域成為邊緣，且往往在華夏主流對比下，在時空上皆只曇花一現。它們雖與中原互相對壘，形成文化差異，也仍有某種程度的交流。這種以「質」不似「量」所釋放的文化訊息，其為黃河長江兩流域青銅時代的多元性，有不可或缺的歷史意義。

The present paper focuses on “marginal” bronze types that differ from the mainstream typologies of the Central Plains (also known as the Huaxia region) during the Shang and Zhou periods. Among the common typologies of bronze vessels, the tripod vessel and two-eared jar types recovered from the Shanxi cemetery of the Western Zhou Marquis of Jin are strikingly unusual; as for weapons, the curved, short-handled sword with high median ridge of the Xiajiadian culture in the Northeast is distinct from the spears and flat-handled, straight-bladed, pommel sword type common throughout the Central Plains. These bronze types were peripheral to the mainstream of the Yellow and Yangtze River valleys, ephemera on the stage of the dominant material culture – both temporally and spatially limited. They confronted and distinguished themselves from the culture of the Central Plains, and even participated in a certain degree of exchange, thereby playing a significant role in the diversity of the Yellow and Yangtze River civilizations of the Bronze Age.

邊緣化; 銅三足瓮; 銅雙耳罐; 柱脊曲刃短莖劍

marginalization; bronze tripod vessel; bronze two-eared jar; short-handled and curved sword with high median ridge